374: BIRDS. 
BARNACLES * 
Are distinguished from the Common Geese by a shorter and slenderer 
bill, the edges of which conceal the extremities of the lamine. 
France is sometimes visited during the winter by that species 
from the north of Europe, which is so celebrated by the fabulous 
story of its growing on trees like fruit—Anas erythropus, Gm., or 
better, An. leucopsis, Bechst., Enl. 885; Frisch, 189; Naum. 1, 
c. 39, f. 77. Its mantle is ash-coloured, its neck black; cheeks, 
throat, belly, and forehead white; the bill black, and the feet grey. 
An. bernicla, Gm.; Le Cravant}, 342; and better, Frisch, 156; 
Naum. I, c. 39, f. 78; Wils. VIII, Ixxii, 1 (the Brant), is from 
the same country. The head, neck, and quiils of the wings are 
black; the mantle a brown grey; a spot on each side of the upper 
part of the neck, and the under part of the tail, white; the bill 
black, and feet brown. 
An. egyptiaca, Gm.; Le Bernache armée; Oie d Afrique, du 
Cap, d’ Egypte, &c., &e., Enl. 379, 982, 983 (the Egyptian Goose), 
remarkable for the juste of its colours anil the small spur attached 
to its wing, also belongs to this subgenus; it is sometimes domesti- 
cated, but always retains a propensity to return to its wild state. It 
is the Chenalopex or Fox Goose, held in veneration among the an- 
cient Egyptians, on account of its attachment to its youngf. The 
Crreopsis, Lath. 
Is a New Holland bird, very similar to the Barnacles, with a still smaller 
bill, the membrane of which is much RHE: and sates a little upon 
the forehead. 
Cer. cinereus, Lath., Col. 206; Vieill. Gal. 284, is the only one 
known. It is the size of a Goose, and of a grey colour. 
Awas, Meyer. 
The Ducks, properly so cailed, have the bill broader at its base than it 
is high, and wider at the end than towards the head, and the nostrils 
nearer to its back and base. Their legs being shorter than those of 
Geese, and placed farther back, renders walking more difficult to them 
than to the latter. Their neck also is shorter; the trachea is inflated at 
its bifurcation into cartilaginous capsules, the left of which is usually the 
largest. 
The species of the first division, or those whose thumb is bordered 
with a membrane, have a larger head, a shorter neck, the feet placed 
* Barnacle is the Scotch name of Anser leucopsis, or the true Barnacle; Klake in 
this language signifies a goose. 
+ Cravant, a corruption of grau-ent, grey Duck. 
+ Geoff. St. Hilaire, Ménag. du Mus. d’ Hist. Nat. art. Oie d’ Egypte. 
Add, the An. magellanica, Enl. 1006;—An. antarctica, which is closely allied to it, 
Mus. Carls. 87, and Voy. de la Cog. Zool. 50;—An. leucoptera, Brown., Tl. 40;— 
A. ruficollis and torquata, Pall. Spicil. VI, pl. iv, which is said to penetrate as far as 
Germany ;—An. coromandelica, Enl. 949, Enl. 770. 
