CANADA GOOSE. 
17 £ 
^ breast, as wen as upper part of the back, of a 
brown, darkest where it joins the white; all 
® feathers being finely tipt with pale brown ; whole 
*'>g-coTerts, very pale ash, or light lead colour, pri- 
and secondaries, black ; tertials, long, tapering, 
f with black, edged with light blue, and usually 
fall 
Part, 
ally 
over the wing; scapulars, cinereous brown; lower 
of the back and rump, of the same light ash as 
Of ."'ing-co verts ; tail, rounded, blackish, consisting 
. .®*iteen feathers, edged and tipt broadly n ith white ; 
^bcoverts, white ; belly and vent, whitish, intermixed 
, 'h cinereous ; feet and legs, of the same lake colour 
]^*e bill. 
. This specimen was a female ; the tongue was thick 
fleshy, armed on each side with thirteen strong 
®Dy teeth, exactly similar in appearance, as well as in 
,j''>nber, to those on the tongue of the snow goose ; 
inner concavity of the upper mandible was also 
^dded with rows of teeth. The stomach was extremely 
^’‘Scalar filled with some vegetable matter, and clear 
travel. 
j ^^ith this, another was shot, differing considerably 
fls markings, having little or no white on the head, 
being smaller; its general colour, dark brown. 
'Via, 
',';r>nlxed with pale ash, and darker below, but 
•utly of the same species with the other. 
256 . JNAS CANADENSIS, LlNN,a;CS AND WILSON. 
CANADA GOOSE. 
PLATE Lxvn. riG. IV. — EDI^’BURG^ COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
^ is the common w’ild goose of the United States, 
''ersally known over the whole country ; whose 
f ^’flar periodical migrations are the sure signals of 
of ti'*'-'"® approaching winter. The tracts 
j , ®«ir vast migratory journeys are not confined to the 
fj® ®oast, or its vicinity. In their aerial voy'ages to and 
the north, these winged pilgrims pass over the 
