Cuass II. 
Anas erythropus. A. cinerea 
supra nigro alboque undu- 
lata, collo nigro, facie ab- 
dominequealbis. Lath. Ind. 
orn. 843. id. Syn. vi. 466. Syst. 197. 
L’Qye nonnette ou Cravant. Gm. Lin. 512. 
Belon av. 158. Fiellgas. Faun. Suec. sp. 116. 
Brenta, vel Bernicla. Gesner Schottische Gans. Frisch, ii. 
av. 109. 110. 189. 
Aldr. av. iii. 73. Phil. Tr. ii. 
853. 87. 
Bernacle, or Clakis. Wl. orn. Crantz’s Greenl. i. 80. 
Raitt Syn. av. 137. * Br. Zool. 150.Q. Arct. Zool. 
Sibb. hist. Scot. 21. il, 275. 
BERNACLE GOOSE, 
La Bernache. Brisson av. vi. 6. BERNACLEs 
300. Hist. @ois. ix. 93. Pl. 
Enl. 855. 
Anas Erythropus (mas, ey Lin. 
Anser brendinus. Cais opusc. 
237 
Gerard's Herbal. 1587. 
THIS bird weighs about five pounds; the Descrrr- 
length is two feet one inch; the breadth four 
feet five inches. ‘The bill is black, and only one 
inch three-eighths long; the head is small; the 
forehead and cheeks white; from the bill to the 
eyes is a black line; the hind part of the head, 
the whole neck, and upper part of the breast 
and back, are of a deep black ; the whole under- 
side of the body, and coverts of the tail are 
white; the back, scapulars. and.-coverts of the 
wings, are beautifully barred with grey, black, 
and white; the tail is black; the legs of the 
same eater, and small. 
