PLATE CCXIV. 



Anfer Brenta. Klein Av. p. 130. 8. — Id. p. 170. 12. 

 La Bernache. Buf. ix. p. 93. /. 5.— Pi. Enl 855. 

 Canada Goofe. Alb 'in. I. t. 92. 

 Bernacle, or Claris. Br. Zool. 11. IV 26g. 



Will. Angt. p. 359. 



Phil Trcwf. 11. p. 853. 



Gerard Herb. p. 1587. 



Gew. 5^»: vi. jp. 466. 28. 



The length of our bird is twenty -fix inches ; the bill fhort, black, 

 with a pale or flefli-coloured i'pot on each fide : head white, with a 

 black fpot between the bafe of the bill and the eye : hind head and 

 Heck black : band on the (boulders white : belly throughout pure 

 white : back cinereous, the ends of the feathers black, with the tip 

 white, forming a kind of black and white undulation : wings grey, 

 the feathers, except the quill feathers, black towards the end, and 

 terminating in a white tip : back and rump feathers black ; the fides 

 with the tail coverts white : the tail black. The wings beneath are 

 of a pale cinereous colour, as in the common Heron. 



The confuiion that prevails in the fynonyms of the Bernacle 

 Goofe, Brent Goofe, and White-fronted Goofe, demands a very clofe 

 attention.— -The refult of this confufion is, that we find a Bernacle 

 Goofe which is not a Bernacle Goofe, but the Linnaean Erythropus : 

 the Brent Goofe, which is not the Bernacle, confounded under the 

 trivial name of Bernicla ; and fume of the fynonyms of the true 

 Bernacle, applied to the White-fronted Goofe, Anas Albifrons. 



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