238 duck. 



The Chinese Goose inhabits China, and is common at the Cape 

 of Good Hope;* is found also wild abont the Lake Baikal, in the 

 east of Siberia, and in Kamtschatka,t but is also kept tame in many 

 parts of the Russian Empire, J and we believe in most parts of 

 Europe. Our late voyagers met with it, or at least one very like, at 

 Owhyhee.§ 



In England they are sufficiently common ; they freely mix with 

 the Common Goose, and continue to produce as certainly as if no 

 such mixture had taken place. They are a very noisy race, taking 

 alarm at the least noise, and even without disturbance, will often 

 scream the whole day through : they walk very erect, with the neck 

 much elevated, and as they bear a middle line between the Swan and 

 Goose, they have not improperly been called Swan-goose. 



19— CANADA GOOSE. 



Anas Canadensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 83S. Lin. i. 198. Ph. Tr. lxii. 414. 46. Faun. Am. 



Sept. p. 16. Gm. Lin. i. 514. Bris. vi. 272. t. 26. Id. 8vo. ii. 433. Raii, 39. 



10. Id. 191. 9. Will. 276. t. 70, 71. f. 3. Klein, 129. 6. Borowsk. iii. p. 10. 



C. Bart. Trav. 292. Am. Orn. viii. p. 60. pi. 67. f, 5. Robert, pi. 18. 

 L'Oie a cravate, Buf. ix. p. 82. PL enl. 346. 

 Canada Goose, Gen. Syn. vi. 450. Arct. Zool. ii. 471. Will. Engl. 361. t. 70. Cat. 



Car.\. pi. 92. Slan.Jam.W. 323. Edw. pi. 151. Bewick, ii. p. 283. 



THIS is larger than a Common Goose, and is sometimes three 

 feet six inches long ; and weighs nine pounds. Bill two inches and 

 and a half long, and black ; irides hazel ; head and neck black ; 

 under the throat a broad white band, like a crescent, the horns 



* This is no doubt the species called by Kolben the Crop Goose ; he says, that the 

 tailors made tobacco pouches, and purses, of the membrane which hangs beneath the throat, 

 as it is sufficiently tough for such purposes, and will hold two pounds of tobacco.— Hi**. 

 Cap. ii. 139. 



t Arct. Zool. % Dec. russ. i. 466. Frequent at Astrachan. 



§ A Goose, like the China Goose, at Karaca-kooah Bay, in Owhyhee, quite tame, called 

 there Na na. — Ellis. Narr. ii. 143. 



