CANADA GOOSE.
CRAVAT GOOSE.
Anser Canadensis, FLEMING.
Anas Canadensis, BEWICK.
Cygntts Canadensis, JENYNS.
Anser—A Goose. Canadensis—Of, or belonging to Canada.
THE name of the Canada Goose indicates the country of which it
is a native. Immense flocks occur about Hudson's Bay, and in the
boreal districts of North America—Labrador, Newfoundland, and others.
They go as far south in the summer as Carolina. The species appears
to be plentiful also in Greenland and Spitsbergen.
I n this country many have been observed and obtained. In Yorkshire,
two were shot by Mr. William Mosey, of Skerne, near Driffield.
In Cornwall, one was shot a few years since in the month of September,
on the banks of the Lair a; three or four also were obtained at different
times at St. Germans: one on the Scilly Islands; another in
January 1849. In Devonshire four, two of them in lStiO. In Oxfordshire,
one on Port Meadow, in Februarv, 1828; and another on
Otmoor, in the winter of 1845, near AYeston-on-thc-Grecn. In Derbyshire,
a pair remained for a short time on a pool at Melbourne, the
second week in May, 1849. In Hampshire, Mr. Yarrell says that
several have been shot. In Cambridgeshire, the Rev. Leonard Jenyns
states that large flocks have been observed, and some birds obtained.
In Durham, many were taken on the sea-shore near Hartlepool, in
the months of January and February, 1814, during the severe snowstorms
of that date, which I can just remember myself, and which
have been paralleled by none since till the same period in the year
1855.
The Canada Goose has occurred also in Ireland.