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and is said to fly in small flocks of eight or nine 

 each : its habits are but little known ; but in a do- 

 mesticated state their food is similar to that of the com- 

 mon species. It is frequently kept as an ornament 

 in parks in this country, and several are on the estate 

 of Lord Cowper at Panshanger, near Hertford. Its 

 notes are represented as being particularly sweet and 

 melodious, though not of long continuance. 



CANADA SWAN. 



(Cygmis Cauadensis.) 



CY. cinerea, capite collogue nigris, genis giildque albis. 

 Ash-coloured Swan with the head and neck black, the cheeks and 



throat white. 

 Anas Canadensis. Linn. Syst. Nat. \. 198. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 514. Briss. Orn. 6. '272.pl. 26. Raii, Syn. 39. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 838. 

 L'Oie a cravate. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 82. Buff. PL Enl. 



346. 

 Canada Goose. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2.471. Gates. Carol. 1 . pi. 92. 



Edve. Glean, pi. 151. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6.450. Bew. Brit. 



Birds, 2. 283. Wits. Amer. Orn. v.S.p. 53. pi. Ixvii./. 4. 



THIS species is in length three feet, and extends 

 five feet two inches : the beak is black : the irides 

 dark hazel : the upper part of the neck black, marked 

 on the chin and lower part of the head with a large 

 patch of white : lower part of the neck before white : 

 back and wing-coverts brown, each feather tipped 

 with whitish : rump and tail black : tail-coverts and 



