Volume 1

The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization / With additional descriptions ... by E. Griffith and others. The crustacea, arachnides, & insecta, by M. Latreille. Tr. [by H. McMurtrie].

Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832

Date:: 1834 [i.e. 1833]-1837

Credit: The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization / With additional descriptions ... by E. Griffith and others. The crustacea, arachnides, & insecta, by M. Latreille. Tr. [by H. McMurtrie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Barnacles* Are distinguished from the Common Geese by a shorter and slenderer bill, the edges of which conceal the extremities of the lamina;. France is sometimes visited during the winter by that species from the north of Europe, which is so celebrated by the fabulous story of its growing on trees like fruit—Anas erythropus, Gm., or better, An. leucopsis, Bechst., Enl. 885; Frisch, 189; Naum. 1, c. 39, f. 77. Its mantle is ash-coloured, its neck black; cheeks, throat, belly, and forehead white; the bill black, and the feet grey. An. bernicla, Gm.; Le Cravant\, 342; and better, Frisch, 156; Naum. I, c. 39, f. 78; Wils. VIII, lxxii, 1 (the Brant), is from the same country. The head, neck, and quills of the wings are black; the mantle a brown grey; a spot on each side of the upper part of the neck, and the under part of the tail, white; the bill black, and feet brown. An. ceyyptiaca, Gm.; Le Bernache armee; Oie d' Afrique, du Cap, d’Egypte, &c., &c., Enl. 379, 982, 983 (the Egyptian Goose), remarkable for the lustre of its colours and the small spur attached to its wing, also belongs to this subgenus; it is sometimes domesti- cated, but always retains a propensity to return to its wild state. It is the Chenalopex or Fox Goose, held in veneration among the an- cient Egyptians, on account of its attachment to its young j. The Cereopsis, Lath. Is a New Holland bird, very similar to the Barnacles, with a still smaller bill, the membrane of which is much broader, and extends a little upon the forehead. 1 Cer. cinereus, Lath., Col. 206; Vieill. Gal. 284, is the only one known. It is the size of a Goose, and of a grey colour. Anas, Meyer. The Ducks, properly so called, have the bill broader at its base than it is high, and wider at the end than towards the head, and the nostrils nearer to its back and base. Their legs being shorter than those of Geese, and placed farther back, renders walking more difficult to them than to the latter. Their neck also is shorter; the trachea is inflated at largestrCatl0U ^ CartllagmouS caPsules> the left of which is usually the The species of the first division, or those whose thumb is bordered with a membrane, have a larger head, a shorter neck, the feet placed this language ^ ^ “ t Cravant, a corruption of grau-ent, grey Duck. AddtW % M6na|- ?u Mus- (l’Hist- Nat. art. Oied’Egypte. Mu, Car£.l7,3l^^a wUeh ^ dlied to A. ruficollis and torquata, Pall. Spicil VI nl iv which In'own-’ I1]-40;— Germany; An. coromandelica, Enl. 949, 950*;-^. fit ™$