•CANADA GOOSE. 
The legs and feet, which seem to be made like 
those of a Tame Goose, are all of a dark lead- 
colour. It has four toes ; three forward, and 
one backward." 
Edwards tells us, that he drew this bird at 
his honoured patron's, Sir Hans Sl'oane, as it 
walked in the yard: and, that these Geese are 
found in Canada; and are brought, also, tons, 
from New England, and from Hudson's Bay. 
" I have," says he, " besn informed, that 
some gentlemen have lately propagated this 
species in England. This bird," observes Ed- 
wards, " is described in Willughby's Ornitho- 
logy, and is ill-figured in Plate 70: but, in 
Plate 71, there is a better figure of it; which, 
by some mistake, is called the Swan Goose. 
Albin, in his History of Birds, Vol. I. Plate 92, 
has figured a Goose called the Barnacle ; and, 
through ignorance, or mistake, has described 
it, Page 88, under the name of the Canada 
Goose. Wherefore," adds Edwards, " in 
order to rectify the above errors, I present the 
public with a new draught and description im- 
mediately from life. In my description, I 
have been something more particular than Mr. 
Willughby: 
