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another had since been killed near the same spot by the 

 same person, but was so mutilated as to be unfit for pre- 

 servation. 



Hemipodius tachydromus and lunatus, Temrn. Man. 

 d'Ornith. ii. 494. Hemipodius tachydromus, Yair. Brit. 

 Birds, Suppl. 43. 



ORDER XVII. CRIBRATRICES. 



FAMILY XLI. ANSERINE. 



GENUS CXX. ANSER. GOOSE. 



333. ANSER CANADENSIS. CANADA GOOSE. 



Male about forty -three inches long ; bill, feet, and 

 claws, black; head and upper two- thirds of the neck glossy- 

 black ; forehead, cheeks, and chin, tinged with brown ; 

 lower eyelid white ; a broad band of white across the throat 

 to behind the eye ; rump and tail-feathers black ; general 

 colour of the rest of the upper parts greyish-brown, wing- 

 coverts shaded with ash-grey, all the feathers terminally 

 margined with very pale-brown ; upper tail-coverts white ; 

 lower part of neck passing to greyish-white, which is the 

 general colour of the lower parts, the abdomen, however, 

 being pure white ; the sides pale brownish-grey, the fea- 

 thers margined with white ; the lower wing-coverts pale 

 brownish -grey. Female similar. 



Male, 43, 65, 20, 2J, 3&, S-&, 7-&. 



Individuals of this species apparently truly wild are of 

 not very uncommon occurrence in Britain ; but as the spe- 

 cies has long been domesticated there, it is not quite cer- 

 tain that these are to be reckoned other than emancipated 

 birds, or their offspring. 



Anas Canadensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 198. Anser Cana- 

 densis, Bonap. Synops. 377. Canada Goose, Yarr. Brit. 

 Birds, iii. 91. 



GENUS. PLECTROPTERUS. SPUR- WINGED 

 GOOSE. 



Characters nearly the same as those of the genus 

 Chenalopex; but the wings with a strong pointed spin- 

 on the flexure, or carpal joint. 



