544 CANADA GOOSE. 



ranee: legs black : whole plumage of a fnowy whitenefs. Weight 

 fometimes twenty-five pounds. 

 Place. The Mute S\sran, or that which we call Tame, is found in a wild 



Ra.tz in fome parts of Rujia ; but far more plentiful in Sibiria. It 

 arrives, in fummer, later from the fouth, and does not fpread fo far 

 north *. Thofe which frequent the provinces of Ghilan and Majen- 

 deran, on the fouth of the Cqfpian fea, grow to a vaft fize, and are 

 efteemed great delicacies. The Mahometans hold them in high ve- 

 neration f. 



Canada Eduv. 151. — Catejhy, i. 91. — Anas Canadenfis, Lin. Syjt. 198. — Phil. Tranf. 



Goose. Ixii. 412. — Latham, iii. — Lev. Mus.— Bl. Mus. 



"VS With an elevated black bill : head, neck, primaries, and tail, 

 black: from the throat pafles, along the cheeks to the hind 

 part of each fide of the head, a triangular white fpot .: bottom of 

 the neck, vent feathers, lower belly, and coverts of the tail, white : 

 breaft, upper belly, back, and wings (except primaries) of a dufky 

 brown : legs of a deep lead-color. 

 pLAfE. Inhabit the northern parts of North America. Immenfc flocks 



appear annually in the fpring in Hudfon's Bay, and pafs far to 

 the north to breed ; and return fouthward in the autumn. Numbers 

 alfo breed about Hudfon's Bay, and lay fix or feven eggs. The young 

 are eafily made tame. M. Fabricius fufpefts that they are found, 

 during fummer, in Grs£«/^»^ J. They proceed^ in their fouthern mi- 

 gration, as low as South Carolina, where they winter in the rice- 

 grounds. The Englijh of Hudfon's Bay depend greatly on G^t^t, of 

 thefe and other kinds, for their fupport ; and, in favorable years, kill 

 three or four thoufand, which they fait and barrel. Their arrival 

 is impatiently attended ; it is the harbinger of the fpring, and the 

 month named by the Indians the Goofe moon. They appear ufually 

 at our fettlements in numbers, about St. George's day, O. S. and fly 



• Doftor PjiLLAS. f ExtraSii, iii. 78, J Faun.Groenl. p. 66. 



northward 



