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as not to require any ring round their necks, but 

 spring into the water at the command of their 

 owners, and soon return with their prey in their 

 mouths. 



Among the Goose tribe we may particularize 

 a species often found in the northern parts of our 

 own island, and called the Bernacle Goose or 

 Clakis : it is commonly supposed the A. Erythropus 

 of Linnaeus, and is black above with the feathers 

 barred or edged with white. This is the bird 

 which the vulgar, and even some of the learned 

 once supposed to have been produced, not in the 

 manner of other birds, from an egg, but from a 

 peculiar kind of shell-fish called the Bernacle, an 

 animal which we shall have occasion to parti- 

 cularize when we arrive at that department of 

 ^oology. 



One of the most singular genera among the 

 Anseres or the web-footed swimming-birds, is the 

 genus Penguin, Aptenodytes or Pinguinaria. We 

 cannot but recollect, that among quadrupeds there 

 are some particular kinds, which in point of ex- 

 ternal appearance, seem to make an approach to 

 animals of a different cast or nature ^ thus, the 

 Manis has so much the appearance and make of 

 a Lizard that, outward form alone were con- 



