268 NATATORES. ANSER. Wi. Goose. 
General] PLATE 43. represents this species, rather below the natural 
descrip- size. 
tion. i : : ; ‘ 
Bill flesh-red, tinged with orange; the nail being skim- 
milk white. Forehead and margins of the upper man- 
dible white. Head and neck brown, tinged with grey. 
Breast, belly, and abdomen, black ; varied with patches 
of white. Back clove-brown; with the margins of the 
feathers light-grey. Wing-coverts grey, edged with 
white. Quills greyish-black. Rump clove-brown. Up- 
per and under tail-coverts, and vent, white. Tail having 
the middle feathers deep grey, edged with white; and 
the outer ones almost entirely white. Legs and toes red- 
dish-orange. Claws white. 
BERNICLE GOOSE, or CLAKIS, 
Anser Bernicta, Flem. 
PLATE XLIV. 
Anser Bernicla, F/em. Br. Anim. 1. 127. sp. 198. 
Anser Leucopsis, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 921. 
Anas Leucopsis, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. 823. 
Anas Erythropus (mas), Linn. Syst. 1. 197. 11.—Zath. Ind. Orn. 2. 843. 
sp. 31.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 512. 
Bernicla erythropus, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 49. 
Bernicla, Will. Orn. 274.—Briss. Orn. 6. 300. 
La Bernache, Buff: Ois. 9. 93. f 5.—Zd. Pl. Enl. 855. 
Oie Bernache, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. 823. _ 
Weisswangige Gans, Meyer, Tasschenb. 2. 557. 
Canada Goose, Adbin’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 92. 
Bernicle, or Clakis, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 577. No. 269.—Arct. Zool. 2. 
No. 479.— Will. (Ang.) 359 —Lath. Syn. 6. 466. 26.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 
7. pl. 242.—Mont. Orn. Dict. 1. and Sup.— Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 
p- t. 302.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 127. sp. 198. 
Provincrat—Claik-goose, Routherook. 
From the mistake of Linneus, in describing the true 
Bernicle as the male of Anser Erythropus (White-fronted 
Goose), and considering A. Brenta and A. Bernicla of the 
older naturalists as synonymous, a misapplication of the ap- 
