Bernicla

(Bernicla sandvicensis), and the Melithreptes Pacifica, constitute its chief population.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

The distribution of the bustards is confined to the Old World -- the bird so called in the fur-countries of North America, and thus giving its name to a lake, river and cape, being the Canada goose (_Bernicla canadensis_).

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

One of the most extraordinary and persistent myths of medieval natural history, dating back to the 12th century at least, was the cause of transferring to these organisms the name of the barnack or bernacle goose (_Bernicla branta_).

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

(Bernicla sandvicensis), and the Melithreptes Pacifica, constitute its chief population.

The Hawaiian Archipelago 1867

(_Bernicla antarctica_) standing on the sea-shore by his dusky partner is a sight well known to all those who have traversed the sounds of Tierra del

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

The wood-duck (Bernicla jubata) abounded on the larger water-holes which we passed; and the swamp-pheasant (Centropus Phasianus, GOULD) was heard several times among the trees surrounding the grassy hollows.

Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830

The _Anser Bernicla_, or barnacle goose, a common winter visitant of our coasts, was once believed to be developed out of decaying wood long submerged in sea water: and one of our commonest cirripedes or barnacles, _Lepas anatifera_, still bears, in its specific name of the goose-producing _lepas_, evidence that it was the creature specially recognized by our ancestors as the half-developed goose.

The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829