258 duck. 



Bernicla, Bris. vi. 300. Id. 8vo. ii. 411. Rail, 137. A. 5. Will. 274. 



Anas Helsingen, Olaff. Isl. ii. t. 33. 



Die Blassengans, Naturf. xii. 135. 75. Id. xxv. s. 9. 



Die Bernakelgans, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 623. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 921. 



La Bernache, Buf. ix. 93. pi. 5. PI. enl. 855. 



Canada Goose, Albin, i. pi. 92. 



Black Goose, Rural Sports, ii. t. p. 465. 



Bemacle, or Clakis, Gen. St/n. vi. 466. Br. Zool. ii. No. 269. Id.fol. 150. Id. 1812. 



ii. 237. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 479. Will. Engl. 359. Ph. Tr. ii. p. 853. Id. xii. 



923. Gerard. Herb. p. 1587. Hayes, Birds, pi. 24. £eu>. ii. pi. p. 307. Lew. vii. 



pi. 242. Wale. i. pi. 62. Pult. Dors. p. 20. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



LENGTH two feet, breadth four. Bill short, and black, with 

 a spot of flesh-colour on each side ; irides brown ; forehead to the 

 middle of the crown, sides of the head, chin, and throat, white; from 

 the bill to the eye a black streak ; the rest of the head, neck, and 

 beginning of the back, black ; breast and under parts, sides of the 

 vent, and upper tail coverts, white; thighs mottled dusky and white; 

 round the knee black ; back black, the edges of the feathers mar- 

 gined with white ; at the bend of the wing a hard knob ; wing 

 coverts and scapulars blue grey, the ends black, fringed with white 

 at the tips ; rump plain black ; quills the same, edged with blue 

 grey, except towards the ends ; tail five inches and a half long, and 

 black ; legs dusky black.* 



This bird frequents many of the northern and western coasts of 

 this kingdom, in winter; but in the south only in very inclement 

 seasons ;f departs hence in February, and retires north to breed, at 

 which time it is found in the north of Russia, Lapland, Norway, 

 and Iceland. In America, is now and then met with in Hudson's 

 Bay.— -This is the species which so many authors have handed down 

 to us under the name of Tree Goose, and Clakis,J supposing it to 



* The name of Erythropus, given to it by Linna?us, is improper, as the legs are not red. 



f These birds were in the greatest plenty at Sandwich, in the hard frost of 1739 & 1740, 

 but in so starved a condition, as to be knocked down with sticks, and few sold for more 

 than six-pence a piece; the same happened in 1803 ; and we learn from Colonel Montagu, 

 that they were not unknown about Christmas, on the Coast of South Devon, in the year 

 1800. $ See Phil. Trans. Gerard Herb. Camd. Brit. (1695). p. 941. Will. Orn. 359. 



