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NA TA TORES. A NA JID.E. 



PLATE CCXXXIIL 



CRAVAT GOOSE. 



ANSER CANADENSIS. 



The Cravat Goose is an occasional visitant in Great Bri- 

 tain, and is said to occur from time to time in small flocks 

 in some of our western counties. The accounts received from 

 several navigators of the northern seas make mention of the 

 present species as abounding in the highest northern latitudes, 

 being met with during the breeding-season in Greenland, on 

 the coast of Spitzbergen, and the Hudson's Bay ; in the spring 

 and autumn it visits Canada, and in the winter penetrates as 

 far south as Carolina. On the continent of Europe there is 

 no instance on record of this bird having been captured in a 

 wild state ; we may consequently suppose that we owe its 

 occurrence in this country to some peculiar circumstances of 

 wind and weather, that combine to send stragglers to our 

 coast from the American continent. 



It is, in our opinion, no great wonder that flocks of the 

 Cravat Goose occasionally visit our shores, this being the 

 case with many other of the migratory species of America. 

 The reason why such visits have not been more frequently 

 noticed may be attributed to the want of interest taken in 

 the subject of Natural History by the greater portion of 



