45° D U C K. 



at Madagascar *. As to the colour of the crefi, or knob,- it can 

 be no objection : it is pofiible that this part may be red while in 

 the living ftate, and grow pale on the death of the bird. 



14- Anas Canadenfis, Lin. Sjjt. i. p. 198. 14. — Phil. Tranf. lxii. p. 4.12. 



CANADA G. L , 0ye f auvage de Canada, Brif. Orn. vi. p. Z72. 4. pi. 26.— Pi. Enl. 



34<S- 

 L'Oie a cravate, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 8z. 



Canada Goofe, Raii Sjn. p. 139. 10. p. 191. 9. — Will. Orn. p. 361. pi. 

 70 f. — Catejb. Car. i. pi. 92.— Sloan. Jam. ii. p. 323. 6, — .EV<u>. pi. 

 151.— ArB. Zool. N° 471. 



5r. M///I Z«w. Afa/ 



Description, HpHlS is bigger than a tame Goofe : meafures three feet fix inches 

 in length : and weighs nine pounds. The bill is two inches 

 and a half long, and black : irides hazel : the head and neck are 

 black : under the throat is a broad white band, like a crefcent, 

 the horns paffing on each fide upwards to the hind head : the 

 breaft, upper part of the belly, back, and wing coverts, are 

 dufky brown : lower part of the neck and belly, vent, and up- 

 per tail coverts, white: quills and tail black: legs dark lead- 

 colour. 

 Place and Inhabits North America. Found, during the fummer, in Hud- 



fin's Bay, and parts beyond ; alfo in Greenland %-, and, in the 

 fummer months, in various parts of North America, as far as 

 Carolina. Numbers breed at Hudfon's Bay, and lay fix or feven 

 eggs j but the major part retire ftill farther north. Their firft 

 appearance in the Bay is from about the middle of April to about 



* Flacourt Madag. p. 165. -j- Called by miftake Swan-Goofe. 



% Faun. Groenl. 



the 



