258 



ljumbrtcus capitdtus. 



scribed both this and the precident (the spur-winged goose, 

 or gambo) among the king's wild-fowl in St. James's Park." 

 Edwards (whose figures are often far more characteristic than 

 many of the highly finished ones of the present day) has given 

 a more particular account, and also a plate, in his Natural 

 History of Rare Birds, iii. plate 151. Albin has misnamed 

 his figure of the bernacle goose " Canada goose." Bewick's 

 figure his rather too thick and heavy. In the annexed like- 

 ness [not engraved] I have endeavoured to give more of the 

 character of the bird. 



The Canada goose makes a plump appearance when brought 

 up to table. The flesh is brown and savoury ; and no doubt 

 it might be improved by domesticating the bird, just as the 

 flesh of the tame duck has acquired a superior flavour to that 

 of the wild. 



Near Derby, December 22. 1834. 



Art. IV. Illustrations in British Zoology* By George John- 

 ston, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edin- 

 burgh. 



35. Z/UMBRI X CUS capita v tus. {Jig. 23.) 



Zumbrlcus capitatus : «, worm of the natural size ; b, the anterior portion, magnified ; c, a 

 portion from about the middle, magnified. 



jmes. — L. capitatus Fabr., Faun. Grcenl. 279. L. littoralis 

 Johnston, in Zool. Journ. iii. 328. L. armiger ? Mull., Zool. Dan. Prod. 

 215. no. 2610.; Turt., Gmel. iv. 60. 



DESCRIPTION, — Body from 3 in. to 6 in. long ; slender, 

 round, or slightly flattened on the ventral aspect, pointed 

 towards the head, narrower posteriorly, of a red or scarlet 

 colour, rendered dusky in many places by the contents of the 

 intestine ; and, in a state of extension, the posterior half is 

 frequently pale or spotted, annulose to the naked eye, the 

 segments not longer than their diameter, finely crenulate on 

 the margin, and each of them armed with four little fascicles 

 of bristles issuing from a small rounded papilla; the bristles 

 reverted, short, slightly curved, arranged transversely ; head 



