It went in small flocks, and as it got on the wing made a long shrill plaintive kind of note.

The deep glossy rifle-green colour of their back, and the transparent streak of white across the wing, gave them a most beautiful appearance, as the sun's rays lit up their rich plumage in their circuitous flight round the boat.

Their number did not exceed twenty, and they too were only seen on this part of the river.
They were also very wary, which is singular in the inhabitants of a wilderness, almost totally unfrequented by man.

We only got one specimen, by which we found that it had the head and bill of a goose.

It was indeed quite a goose in miniature.