AXSKRIX.E — THE fi KKSE — ANSER. 



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From tlu'sc iiionHiironu-iits it may In; rcmlily seen tlmt llii! tliri-c fitrius iiitiTj^riule ns to^i'iiunil 

 size, tliu )iill Ix-iii},' the only infm))LT in wiiidi tlicri; u t\ cunstaiit liiircrt'iicc ; and lis we an; not 

 aware ol' any iidsIiIvi' rliaracter.s nl' iiolomtinn, it sccnix very priilialile tliat tliey rcmstitute tucivly 

 races iif one Npccies. At any rate, we sliall so hen^ rej,'ar(l llie American Jorni anil itc neaivst 

 Kuriipean ally (.1. idliifniii^), leaviii;^' the linal ileterminatiou r)t' (lie (|ue8tiuii (if determinable it 

 lie) to future investi;,'at()rs. 



Another species of true vl/idt/' — the Benn fJoose (A. siiji'liim) --\\m been cre<lited to North 

 America by Nuttai.i, ("Man." ii. ls;j2, \>. ;Uh ■ "Canada and Hudson's Hay"); but a]ii)arenlly 

 without (,'ood authoi'ity for so doin^,'. Considering' the possibility of its occurrence, however, itx 

 principal synonymy and characters are herewith (,'iven ; — 



AnsEII SKoKri'M ((iM.) lir. The Hcau (iouse. 

 villus xiiji/iiiii, (iM. ,S. N. I. 17MH, .ll-J. 

 Aiiufi- Hiijilum, Mkvi'.I!, Tiisch. II. ,154, I't AfcT. 

 Anmr nnvnuis, Hui'.lIM, Viig. Deiltschl. 838. 

 ? Aiisff rii/i.imi.i, ) 



Aitsir jihitjinrim, J 



BiiKMM, t. c. lip. 837, 838. 



Sp. Char. " Male thirty inches lc.n^{ ; bill moderately (hick, iieaily as lonj,' as the head, two 

 inches and u thinl in leii^^th, and an inch and two twelfths in hei^dit at the base, nine twelfthH in 



w 



A, tilhi/iviis, 



hei},dit behind the circular unguis, yellowish oran^^e, with the base and unguis black ; t«rsu» three 

 inches lonj,', dull oraiij^e-yellow ; the wiM;,'s lciii,i,'ei' (li.in the (ail ; feathers of (he neck linear-obloii},', 

 disposed in riilf,'e3 ; head and neck ^'r.iyish brown ; upper |)arts dark brown ami jjiay, iMUied with 

 the whi(ish terminal mar^fins of tin' feathers ; hind jiart of back blackish brown ; lower ]iarts pale 

 brownish '^ri\y, becomint,' whili' behind. Fimuli similar, but smaller. Ynuiuj with (he upjM'r parts 

 darker, (he heail and neck of a li'^hler brown, (luce small ])a(ches of white feutbew at the base of 

 the bill" (M.vcoil.MVKAY, '• Mist, lirit. 15." IV, iK,-2, p. Mtt). 



