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AXIMALS IN MENAGERIES. 



lian brethren to it, in the hopes that we may hereafter 

 be able to determine what it really is. 



" Size of a common goose. Bill very stout, deep red. 

 with a black tip : plumage in general whitish dun, or 

 cream-colour : across the shoulders two or three rows 

 of transverse dusky blotches, and a few of the same on 

 the wing covers : ends of the quills chocolate : tail 

 black : legs moderate in size, and red. Inhabits New 

 South Wales." 



The Pigeon Goose. 

 Cereopsis Australis, Sw. (Fig. 32.) 



Cinereous grey : wing covers and lesser quills tipt with 

 dark roundish spots. 



Cereopsis Nov« HollandiaB, Latham, Lid. Ornith. Supp. Ixvii. 

 Aiict. Cereopsis, Bennett, in Zool. Gard. ii. 815. Anser 

 griseus, Vieillot. Cereopsis cendre, Temm. PI. Col. 206. 

 New Holland Cereopsis, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. 325. 



The pigeon goose 

 (so called from the si- 

 milarity of its colour- 

 ing, no less than its 

 direct analogy to those 

 birds) remained for 

 many years so little 

 known to ornitholo- 

 gists, that only three 

 preserved specimens 

 were ascertained to 

 exist in the European 

 museums. One of 

 these, mutilated, was, 

 no doubt, the cause of 

 considerable error to 

 Dr. Latham, when he first separated this bird as the 

 type of his genus Cereopsis ; a name, however, which, 

 from not being founded in fact, but tending to give a 



