112 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



698. Chloephaga canagica (Sevast.) Eyt. b 573. c 482. r 598. 



Painted Goose. 



699. Bernicla lencopsis (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 5946, 



White-cheeked Canada Goose. r594c. 



704. Bernicla canadensis hutchinsi (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 aut-amnalis (L.) Eyt. b 574. c 487. R 599. 



Autumnal Tree Duck. 



698. Chl6-e'-pha-ga ca-na'-gi-ca. Gr. x^<^« or X^^V, young grass, whence x^'^P^^> green ; 



(payee, 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. canarjica. 



699. Ber'-ni-cla leu-cop'-sis. Bernicla or bernicula is Latinized from the French hernicle 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 Miiller says hibernaculum, but he gives no 

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

 Lect. on the Sci. of Lang., 2d ser.) — Gr. \(vk6s, white, and o\\/is, appearance. 



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

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



The geese of this genus stand in the orig. ed. as species of Dranta ; 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/lorhi/nchus, No. 63. Brent or brant goose is therefore 

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



701. B. b. nlg'-rl-cans. Lat. wi'5'nca?!s, being blackish, like n/^rrescens. — Not in the orig. ed. 



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



703. B. c. Ieu-c6-pa-ri'-a. Gr. \evK6s, white ; irapeii, 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-drQ-cyg'-na ful'-va. Gr. SeVSpoj/, a tree, and kvkvos, a swan ; see Cygnus, No. 688. — 



'LuX.fulvus, fulvous, reddish. 



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



increase of the earth is harvested ; auctummis, the autumn ; auctus, an increase, increased ; 

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



