346 . PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [anNO 1772. 



guns each, killing 1 or even 3 geese at each shot, for they are very expert. 

 Mr. Graham says, he has seen a row of Indians, by calling round a flock of 

 geese, keep them hovering among them, till every one of the geese was killed 

 Every species of geese has its peculiar note or call, which must greatly increase 

 the difficulty of enticing them. 



Anas. 47. Albeola. 199. 18. The Red Duck. Faun. Am. Sept. 17. 

 Edvv. t. 100. Sarcelle de la Louisiane. Brisson vi. t. 41, f. 1. Severn river, 

 N° 37 and 38. Fishing Birds. 



The descriptions and figures answer very well with the male, except that the 3 

 exterior feathers are not white on the outside, but all dusky. The female is not 

 described by any one of the ornithologists; and therefore deserves to be noticed, 

 to prevent future mistake. The whole bird is dusky, a few feathers on the fore- 

 head are rusty, and some about the ears of a dirty white; the breast is grey, the 

 belly and speculum in the wings white; the bill and legs are black. They visit 

 Severn settlement in June, build their nests in trees, and breed among the woods, 

 and near ponds; the weight of the female is 1 pound, its length 14 inches, and 

 its breadth 21. 



Anas. 48. Clangula. 201. 23. Golden Eye, Br. Zool, Faun. Am. Sept. 

 ifj, Severn river, N" 51. 



These birds frequent lakes and ponds, and breed there: they eat fish and 

 slime, and cannot rise off the dry land. The legs and irides are yellow ; their 

 weight is 2^ pounds, and their measure 19 inches in length, and 2 feet in breadth. 

 The specimen sent is the male. 



Anas, 49. Perspicillata. 201. 25. Black Duck. Faun. Am. Sept. 16. 

 Edw. 155. Churchill river, N° 14. 



This species is exactly described, and well drawn by Edwards, The Indians 

 call it she-ke-supartem. It ought to come into the first division of Linnaeus's 

 ducks, " rostro basi gibbo," as its bill is really very unequal at the base. 



Anas. 50. Glacialis, 203. 30, and Hyenalis, 202. 29, Edw. t. I56. 

 Swallow-tail. Br. Zool. Faun, Am. Sept. 1 7, Churchill river, N° 12, 



At Churchill river the Indians call this species, har-har-vey; it corresponds 

 with Edwards's description and drawing, pi. 156, but differs much from Linnaeus's 

 inexact description of the anas hymalis, to which he however quotes Edwards. 

 On the whole, it is almost without a doubt that the bird represented by Edwards, 

 plate 280, and Br. Zool. folio, plate a, 7, and quoted by Linnaeus for his anas 

 glacialis, is the male, and that the bird figured by Edwards t, 1 56, and quoted by 

 Linnaeus for the anas hyemalis, is the female, of one and the same species. 

 Linnaeus mentions a white body, in his anas hyemalis, which in Edw, tab. 156, 

 and in the society's specimen, is all brown and dusky, except the belly, temples, 

 a spot on the back of the head, and the sides of the rump, which are white. 



