THE SWiMMINa, OR NATATORIAL GROUP. 1G5 



the gentry, but it is not an indigenous bird in 

 Sweden." Marcgrave states the musk duck 

 to be a native of Brazil and Guiana, and terms 

 it Anas sylvestris, magnitudine anseris — a 

 wood-duck of the size of a goose. 



BuiTon says that these birds were introduced 

 into France in the time of Belon, about 1540, 

 who termed them Canes de Guinee. 



The Domestic Goose. — The goose, like the 

 duck, has been domesticated from time im- 

 memorial ; but its wild origin appears to be 

 clearly ascertained. We may commence the 

 history of this species by observing, that four 

 Europecan species of wild goose, closely allied 

 to each other, are known to naturalists ; 

 namely, — the white-fronted goose,* {Anser 

 erythropiis — Fleming ; A. alhifrom — Bechst. ;) 

 the bean goose, {Anser ferus — Flem. ; A. 

 segetum — Steph. ;) the pink-foot goose, (^w- 

 ser ]}li<xnicopiLS — Bartlett, in Froc. (Zool. Soc. 

 1839, p. 2;) and the grey-lag wild goose, 

 {^Anser palustris — Flem.; Anser cinei-eus, 

 Meyer.) Of these, the first three are only 

 periodical visitants to our island, and the 

 temperate parts of Europe, and western Asia, 

 arriving on the approach of winter, and retiring 



* This species is also a native of Nortli America. 



