ANSERES. ( 95 ) ANATID^E. 



THE CANADA GOOSE. 



THE CRAVAT GOOSE. 



Bernicla canadensis. 



They flock together in consent^ like so many Wild Geese, 



SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV. 



THIS large and handsome Goose has occasionally occurred in 

 Berwickshire. Five specimens were shot at Dowlaw mill 

 pond by Mr. William Cowe on the 14th of May 1867, 1 and 

 one or two have been killed on the Leader, near Lauder. 2 

 Dr. Stuart of Chirnside records that Mr. Millican, Foulden 

 New Mains, saw a flock feeding in his mill pond there on 

 the 16th of July 1882. Supposing them to be tame birds, 

 he incautiously approached them, when they took wing and 

 flew over in the direction of Blackburn. 3 As this species is 

 kept on a large pond at Gosford, in East-Lothian, with other 

 water-fowl, and it rears its young there, it is probable that 

 the examples seen in this county have come thence. 



This bird is about forty-one inches in length, and may 

 be known by its black head and neck, while a white patch 

 extending from under the chin to behind the ears has given 

 it the name of the Cravat Goose. 



1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. vi. p. 435. 



2 Ibid. vol. vi. p. 18, and vol. viii. p. 147. 



3 Ibid. vol. x. p. 573. 



