BRITISH BIRDS. S183 
CANADA GOOSE, 
OR CRAVAT GOOSE. 
{^Anas Canadenfis. — UOte a cravate^ BufF.) 
This is lefs than the Swan-Goofe, but taller and 
longer than the Common Goofe, and may be con- 
fidered as the connecting link between that'fpecies 
and the Swan. Their average weight is about nine 
pounds, and the length about three feet fix inches. 
The bill is black, and two inches and a half long : 
irides hazel : the head and neck are alfo black, with 
a crefcent-fhaped white band on the throat, which 
tapers off to a point on each fide below the cheeks, 
to the hinder part of the head : the whitenefs of 
this cravat is heightened by its contrail with the 
dark furrounding plumage, and it looks very pret- 
ty : this mark alfo diltinguilhes it from others of 
the Goofe tribe. All the upper parts of the plu- 
mage, the breall, and a portion of the belly, are of 
a dull brown, fometimes mixed with grey; the 
lower part of the neck, the belly, vent, and upper 
tail coverts, white ; quills and tail black : legs dingy 
blue. 
This is another ufeful fpecies which has been re- 
claimed from a Hate of nature, domellicated and 
multiplied in many parts of Europe, particularly in 
France and Germany j and it is not very uncom- 
mon in England. It is as familiar, breeds as freely, 
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