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The Canada Goose 
T HIS Bird- in Size exceeds the common Tame Goofe a little.’ Being drawn 
as it walked in a Gentleman’s Yard, I could procure no Meafures of it. Its 
Make is fomething llenderer, or longer in the Body and Neck, than the common 
Tame Goofe. 
The Bill is giade pretty much like that of a Tame Goofe, rough on its Edges, and 
of a Black, or deep Lead-Colour ; the Eyes are of a dark Colour ; the under Eye-lids 
White 5 the Head and Neck are Black, except a white Mark paffing on the under 
Side of the Head, which becomes narrower on the Sides, and Ends in Points about 
the Place of the Ears \ the Back, Wings, and Part of the Bread: and Belly are of a 
dark-brown Colour ; the Edges of the Feathers are fomething lighter, inclining to Afh- 
Colour. The Prime Quills are almoft Black. The lower Part of the Back and 
Rump is Black; the Feathers that cover the Tail on the upper Side are White ; the 
Tail itfelf is Black. The Feathers at the Bottom of the Neck before are White, but 
gradually loofe their Whitenefs in the Brown of the Breaft; the Lower Belly, 
and the Covert-Feathers beneath the Tail are White. The Legs and Feet feem 
to be made like thofe of a Tame Goofe, all of a dark Lead-Colour. It hath four 
Toes, three forward and one backward. 
This Bird I drew fome Years fince, at the Houfe of my honoured Patron Sir 
Hans Sloane , in Bloomjbury. They are found in Canada , and are brought alfo to us 
from New England and Hndfoii s- Bay \ I have been inform’d that fome Gentlemen 
have lately propagated this Species in England . This Bird is defcribed in Willughbf s 
Ornithology , P. 361. and is ill-figur’d in Tab. LXX, but in Tab. LXXI there is a 
better Figure of it, which by fome Miflake is call’d the Swan Goofe . Albin in his 
Hijlory of Birds , Vol. I. Plate 92, has figur’d a Goofe call’d the Barnacle , and 
through Ignorance, or Miftake, has defcribed it, P. 88, under the Name of the Ca- 
nada Goofe . Wherefore, in order to re&ify the above Errors, I prefent the Publick 
with a new Draught and Defcription immediately from Life. In my Defcription I 
have been fomething more particular than Mr. WiUughby ; he calls the Bird Grey, 
where I call it dark Brown : It is indeed of a dirty Brown, fomething inclining to 
Grey. In the Figure I have endeavour’d to be more corredl, and nearer Nature, 
than any former Draught, and hope I have fucceeded. My Friend, Mr. Tfham , has 
inform’d me, that great Flocks of thefe Birds appear in the Spring of the Year, in 
Hudfon* §-Baf> and pafs a great Way Northward of the Englifh Settlements, where 
they are fuppofed to breed ; they return again in Flocks to the Southern Parts before 
the Winter comes on. Mr. Catefby has figured the Head of this Bird near to the Size 
of Life, 
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