BRITISH BIRDS. 



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THE BERNACLE. 



CLARIS, OR TREE GOOSE. 



{A user I.cncopsis, Temm. Oie bernachc, Temm.) 



WEIGHS about live pounds, and measures more 

 than two feet in length, and nearly four and a 

 half in breadth. The bill, from the tip to the 

 corners of the mouth, is scarcely an inch and a 

 half long, black, and crossed with a pale reddish 

 streak on each side : a narrow black line passes 

 from the bill to the eyes ; the irides are brown : 

 the head is small, and as far as the crown, to- 

 gether with the cheeks and throat, white: the rest 

 of the head and neck, to the breast and shoulders, 

 is black. The upper part of the plumage is prettily 

 marbled or barred with blue grey, black, and white : 

 the feathers of the back are black, edged with white, 

 those of the wing coverts and scapulars blue grey, 



