CHEAT GOOSE. o.) 



then turns back towards (on all fours) the net or 

 hovel ; and his companions go behind the Hock, and, 

 by making a noise, drive them forwards. The simple 

 birds mistake the man in white for their leader, and 

 follow him within reach of the net, which is suddenly 

 pulled down, and thus captures the whole. When 

 he chooses to conduct them even into the hovel, they 

 follow in the same manner ; he creeps in at a hole 

 left for that purpose, and out at another on the op- 

 posite side, which he closes up. The Geese follow 

 him through the first ; and as soon as they are in, 

 lie passes round and secures every one of them. 



Some travellers assert that these birds are very 

 bold and easily captured; but, on the other hand, 

 there are others who deny this, and attribute to them 

 a more than ordinary degree of shyness, and aver 

 that they are so watchful as not to allow a person to 

 approach them within two or three gunshots. 



GREAT GOOSl.. 



(Auser grandis.) 



AN. corpore nigncante subtus albo, rostro nigro, pedibus coccineis. 

 Goose with the body dusky, beneath white, the beak black, legs 



scarlet. 



Anas grandis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . 504. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 837. 

 Great Goose. Penn. Arct. Zoo/. 2. 5/0. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 446. 



A LARGE species, weighing nearly thirty pounds : 

 its beak is black, with its base tawny : the upper parts 



