268 NATATORES. ANSER. WILD GOOSE. 



General PLATE 43. represents this species, rather below the natural 



descrip. gize 



tidn. 



Bill flesh-red, tinged with orange; the nail being skim- 

 milk white. Forehead and margins of the upper man- 

 dible white. Head and neck brown, tinged with grey. 

 Breast, belly, and abdomen, black ; varied with patches 

 of white. Back clove-brown ; with the margins of the 

 feathers light-grey. Wing-coverts grey, edged with 

 white. Quills greyish-black. Rump clove-brown. Up- 

 per and under tail-coverts, and vent, white. Tail having 

 the middle feathers deep grey, edged with white ; and 

 the outer ones almost entirely white. Legs and toes red- 

 dish-orange. Claws white. 



BERNICLE GOOSE, OB CLARIS. 



ANSER BERNICLA, Flem. 

 PLATE XLTV. 



Anser Beraicla, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 127- sp. 198. 



Anser Leucopsis, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 921. 



Anas Leucopsis, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. 823. 



Anas Erythropus (mas), Linn. Syst. 1. 197- 11 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 843. 



sp. 31 Gmel. Syst. 1. 512. 



Beraicla erythropus, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 49. 



Bernicla, Will. Orn. 274 Briss. Orn. 6. 300. 



La Bernache, Buff. Ois. 9. 93. f. 5 Id. PI. Enl. 855. 



Oie Bernache, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. 823. 



Weisswangige Gans, Meyer, Tasschenb. 2. 557. 



Canada Goose, Alton's Br. Birds, 1. t. 92. 



Bemicle, or Clakis, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 577. No. 269 Arct. Zool. 2. 



No. 479. Will. (Ang.) 359 Lath. Syn. 6. 466. 26 Lewies Br. Birds, 



7. pi. 242 Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. and Sup. Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 



p. t. 302 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 127. sp. 198. 



PROVINCIAL Claik-goose, Routherook. 



FROM the mistake of LINNAEUS, in describing the true 

 Bernicle as the male of Anser Erythropus (White-fronted 

 Goose), and considering A. Brenta and A. Bernicla of the 

 older naturalists as synonymous, a misapplication of the ap- 



