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CANADA GOOSE. 
CRAVAT GOOSE. 
Anser Canadensis, FLEMING. 
Anas Canadensis, BEWICK, 
Cygnus Canadensis, JENYNS. 
Anser—A Goose. Canadensis—Of, or belonging to Canada. 
Tue name of the Canada Goose indicates the country of 
which it is a native. Immense flocks occur about Hudson’s 
Bay, and in the other boreal. districts of North America— 
Labrador, Newfoundland, and others. They go as far south - 
in the summer as Carolina. The species appears to be 
plentiful also in Greenland and Spitzbergen. 
In this country many have been observed and obtained. In 
Yorkshire, two were shot by Mr. William Mosey, of Skerne, 
near Driffield. In Cornwall, one was shot a few years since 
in the month of September, on the banks of the Laira; 
three or four also were obtained at different times at St. 
(Jermains: one on the Scilly Islands. In Oxfordshire, one 
on Port Meadow, in February, 1828; and another on 
Otmoor, in the winter of 1845, near Weston-on-the-Green. 
In Derbyshire, a pair remained for a short time on a pool 
at Melbourne, the second week in May, 1849. In Hampshire, 
Mr. Yarrell says that several have been shot. In Cambridge- 
shire, the Rev. Leonard Jenyns states that large flocks have 
been observed, and some birds obtained. In Durham, many 
were taken on the sea-shore near Hartlepool, in the months 
of January and February, 1814, during the severe snow-storms 
of that date, which I can just remember myself, and which 
have been paralleled by none since till the same period in 
the present year, 1855. 
The Canada Goose has occurred also in Ireland. 
