38 WHITE GOOSE. 



SIZE of the Wild Goose : at the base of the beak 

 a yellow excrescence, radiated in the middle with 

 bluish-black feathers : round the ears a greenish- 

 white space : eyes black, encircled with yellow, and 

 rayed with black : back, fore part of the neck, and 

 belly, white : wings black : hind part of the neck 

 bluish. Taken off Kamtschatka, in the isle of Beer- 

 ing : the natives pursue them in boats, and kill them 

 at the time of moulting ; at other times hunt them 

 on land with dogs, or catch them in pits covered 

 with grass. 



WHITE GOOSE. 



(Anser candidus.) 



Ax. corpore supra subtusque albo, remigibus primis apice nigris, 



rostra pedibusque rosaceis. 

 Goose with the body above and beneath white, the tips of the 



primary quills black, the beak and legs rose-colour. 

 Anser candidus. VieilL 2 Edit, du Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 



t. '23. p. 331. 



DESCRIBED by M. de Azara by the name of Ganso 

 Blanco : it is found in the environs of the river Plate, 

 about the twenty-eighth degree of south latitude, in 

 large flocks : it is very wild : its flesh and quills are 

 but in little estimation : its plumage, with the excep- 

 tion of the primary quills, which are black at the tips, 

 is of a snow white : the beak and legs are pale flesh 

 colour. Both sexes are similar. 



