ANSER. BERNICLA. 117 



by Mr. Mather (< Zoologist/ 1858, p. 5988), but had probably 

 escaped from confinement. An inhabitant of Northern India 

 and Central Asia.] 



[Anser cygnoides. CHINESE GOOSE. 

 Anas Cygnoides, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 194 (1766). 

 Anser cygnoides, Gray, p. 187. 



Cygnoides = like a Swan ; from cygnus = KVKVOS, and eltfos. 



A Chinese species frequently kept on ornamental waters, 

 whence specimens occasionally escape.] 



Genus CHEN, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 563. 



Chen = xqv, a Goose, in classical Greek ; cognate with Anser, q. v., p. 115. 



Chen albatus, CASSIN'S SNOW GOOSE. 



Anser albatus, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 

 1856, p. 41. 



Anser albatus, Gould, Introd. p. cxxi; Harting, p. 155. 

 Chen albatus, Dresser, vi. p. 409. 



Albatus = clothed in white, albas. 



Two obtained near Wexford, and two in co. Mayo, Ireland 

 (Saunders, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 519). An inhabitant of Western 

 North America. 



Genus BERNICLA, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 563. 



Bernicla, of uncertain derivation. Max Miiller (' Lectures on the Science of 

 Language,' 2nd series, 1864, pp. 533-551) thinks "barnacles," the cirripeds 

 (" pernaculce "), were confused with the Geese that came from Ireland (" hiber- 

 niculce ") ; but he adduces no evidence. 



Bernicla brenta. BEENT GOOSE. 



Anser brenta, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-As. ii. p. 229 



(1811). 

 Anas Bernicla, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 198 (1766) . 



Bernicla brenta, Macg. iv. p. 629; Gray, p. 184; Gould, v. 

 pi. 7 ; Dresser, vi. p. 389. 



