112 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



698. Chloephaga canagica (Sevast.) Eyt. B 573. c 482. R 598. 



Painted Goose. 



699. Bernicla leucopsis (Bechst.) Boie. B 572. c 483. R 597. (!E.) 



Barnacle Goose. 



700. Bernicla brenta (Pall.) Steph. B 570. c 484. R 595. 



Brant Goose. 



701. Bernicla brenta nigricans (Lawr.) Coues. B 571. c R 596. 



Black Brant Goose. 



702. Bernicla canadensis (L.) Boie. B 567. c 485. R 594. 



Canada Goose; Common Wild Goose. 



703. Bernicla canadensis leucoparia (Brandt) Coues. B 568. c 485a. R 594'>, 



White-cheeked Canada Goose. f594c. 



704. Bernicla canadensis Irutchinsi (Rich.) Coues. B 569. c 4856. R 594a. 



Hutchins' Canada Goose. 



705. Dendrocygna fulva (Gm.) Burm. B 575. c 486. R 600. 



Fulvous Tree Duck. 



706. Dendrocygna autumnalis (L.) Eyt. B 574. c 487. R 599. 



Autumnal Tree Duck. 



698. Chl<5-e'-pha-ga ca-na'-gi-ca. Gr. x^ a or X^r), young grass, whence x^pts, green ; 



(pdyw, I eat. Mr. H. W. Elliott informs us there are Eskimos of Alaska who call them- 

 selves " Kanagiamoot," i. e., "the people of the Kanag " whatever that may be; 

 whence quasi-Lat. canagica. 



699. Ber'-ni-cla leu-cop'-sis. Bernicla or bernicula is Latinized from the French bernicle or 



bernache, Engl. barnacle. We only know this word as the name of the little cirriped crus- 

 taceans out of which this goose was fabled to sprout, ripen, and fall like a fruit from 

 its stem. A correspondent observes : " Max Mtiller says hibernaculum, but he gives no 

 reason whatever (nor for hibernicula;) founded on the word having been ever used." (cf. 

 Lect. on the Sci. of Lang., 2d ser.) Gr. \fvx6s, white, and otyts, appearance. 



This species is Greenlandic, but otherwise North American only as a straggler. For 

 a resume' of occurrences, see Freke, Zoologist, September, 1881, p. 372. 



The geese of this genus stand in the orig. ed. as species of Branta ; but that word 

 having been found unavailable as a generic term, the name Bernicla is restored. 



700. B. bren'-ta. Latinized from brent, brant, brand, or branded goose; the forms brentus and 



brenthus are also found. See Campi/lorhynchus, No. 63. Brent or brant goose is therefore 

 simply burnt goose, from its blackish appearance, as if charred. 



701. B. b. nig'-ri-cans. Lat. nigricans, being blackish, like nigrescens. Not in the orig. ed. 



702. B. ca-na-den'-sis. See Myiodioctes, No. 149. 



703. B. c. leu-co-pa-ri'-a. Gr. \evn&s, white ; trapftd, the cheek. 



704. B. c. hutch'-In-si. To - Hutchins, to whom we were at one time indebted for most 



that was known of the birds of interior British America. 



705. Den-dr5-cyg'-na ful'-va. Gr. SevSpov, a tree, and KVKVOS, a swan ; see Ct/gnus, No. 688. 



Ii&t.fulvu8, fulvous, reddish. 



706. D. au-tum-na'-lls. Lat. autumnalis or auctumnalis, relating to the autumn, when the 



increase of the earth is harvested ; auctumnus, the autumn ; aitctus, an increase, increased ; 

 auctor, a producer, author ; augeo, I increase, furnish forth, augment. 



