The Bernicle, or Tree Geese, are so called from a foolish tradition of the Middle Ages of their being produced from the barnacle shell which attaches itself to ships' bottoms and timber floating in the sea.
These parasites, by adaptation to a parasitical life, have developed out ofBarnacle crabs (Fig.
They resemble the barnacle brant of the Atlantic (=Branta barnicla=) except in the shape of the head and bill.
Here are to be found every species known to the Eastern states, except the barnacle brant of the Atlantic.
A differing characteristic, however, is that the white speckling on the sides of the neck of the barnacle brant extends all around the front of the neck in the case of the black sea brant.
But they heard him say before he disappeared toward his home on the cliffs, that in the future he would stick by his own people and avoid those frivolous young ladies of the Barnacle Goose family.
Meeting one of the young ladies of the Barnacle Goose family, he proposed that she should become his wife, lauding himself by saying what a sweet voice he had, and what a good husband he would make.
Of the Goose tree, Barnacle tree, or the tree bearing geese.
Bernakes: The barnacle goose--introduced here on a hint from Odoric--is a species of wild goose that visits the Northern coasts in winter.
Anglo-Saxon Riddles, of which the best solution is 'barnacle goose'.
As the breeding place of the barnacle goose was unknown, and logs with the shell-fish attached were often found on the coasts, it was supposed that the shell-fish was the fruit of a tree, which developed in the water into a bird.
Church who ate the barnacle goose on fast-days on the plea that it was not flesh; but himself vouches for the marvel.
The Common Barnacle of our own shores, sometimes called the Acorn-Shell, is found on shells and stones, and often on those that are left uncovered between tides.
The Common Barnacle is one of the smaller species of the genus: in warmer seas barnacles attain to a much greater size (Figs.
No doubt he was deceived by some purely superficial resemblances--for example, the feet of the barnacle fish resemble somewhat the feathers of a bird.
He gives an imaginative illustration of the barnacle fowl escaping from its shell, which is reproduced in fig.
The sucking barnacle which you asked for: I was certain I should get one or two, if I could have a look at the pools this week.
I daresay the barnacle turns into what is best for him; at all events, what he deserves.
But she did not care; for Father Barnacle was to stay and "stone up," as they called their queer way of dying.
The mermaids could not amuse her nor understand her sorrow; so she went to wise old Barnacle and asked him what she should do to be a child again.
On Spitzbergen besides the barnacle goose we meet with the closely allied species Anser leucopsis, Bechst.
These geese are much larger than both the eider and the barnacle goose, and appear to be sufficiently strong to defend themselves against the fox.
The barnacle goose finds its food more on land and inland lakes than in the sea.
The glaucous gulls' plunderer, the skua, and its chastiser the bold tern, were also observed, as were a few barnacle geese.
When Bobby Barnacle and his brothers and sisters and cousins were hatched out of their little egg-cases and swam from their mother's acorn-shell houses, the old Barnacles were alarmed.
Headed by Bobby, the shoal of Barnacle babies set off on their travels.
Something moving came through the water, something so huge that to the tiny Barnacle its side was like the side of a world.
Barnacle Geese"--which has never been surpassed as a specimen of ignorant credulity and persistent error.
Among various other changes incidental to the plants and animals on the Rock, the barnacle was found to be fully more prevalent than formerly, and covered all the higher parts, like a greyish coloured scurf.
The limpets and white bucky were, as formerly, in considerable numbers, and the barnacle had coated all the higher parts of the rock, giving it a whitish appearance.
The barnacle was also pretty numerous, and a good many white buckies and small mussels had attached themselves to several parts of the building.
Nevertheless, in France, the Barnacle Goose may be eaten on fast-days by virtue of this old belief in its marine origin.
I was myself one time a poor barnacle goose; The night was not plain to me more than the day Till I got sight of her; she is the love of my heart That banished from me my grief and my misery.
I am going like a poor lonely barnaclegoose throughout the world; like Oisin after the Fenians; every person hates me: you do not hate me, Oona?
If the barnacle is not familiar to readers, certain near relations of these animals must be well known, by sight at least, as amongst the most familiar denizens of our sea-coast.
A barnacle is simply a kind of crab enclosed in a triangular shell, and attached by a fleshy stalk to fixed objects.
Professor Max Müller, after discussing various theories of the origin of the barnacle myth, declares in favor of the idea that confusion of language and alteration of names lie at the root of the error.
The Barnacle Tree (from the "Theatrum Botanicum" of Parkinson, A.
The Barnacle Tree (from "Munster's Cosmography," A.
Gerarde, for example, in his History of Plants gives an illustration of it in all good faith--a branch bearing barnacles and by its side a barnacle goose.
An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle.
One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus.
Mr Barnaclehad already arrived, and Mr Merrett was due in a few minutes.
I felt quite as proud as he did, and still more so when presently Mr Barnacle arrived, and after first looking over his letters and glancing at his Times, touched the bell and said he wished to speak to Smith.
Mr Merrett had been speaking with the detective, and did not hear this dialogue; but Mr Barnacle did, happily for me.
But Mr Barnaclewas not the man to be put off in that way.
You would not like my uncle and Mr Barnacle to be told of your early visits here without leave.
Then Mr Barnacleturned to Hawkesbury and asked, "What brought you here so early as a quarter to nine, Hawkesbury?
I only wished Mr Barnacle would come back from the bank, and that I might know the worst.
Mr Barnacle touched his bell, and the clerk appeared.
For well you know that you and old Bill Barnacle collared me off Curry and Rice after rollin him off the iceberg.
Bill Barnacleflew into a passion at these signs of treachery.
The old legend of the barnacle geese, however, he gives fully.
Among illustrations of the barnacle geese, that in de l'Obel's Stirpium Historia (1571) depicts the tree without the birds.
In his protest against eating these barnacle geese during Lent he writes thus:-- "There are here many birds which are called Bernacae which nature produces in a manner contrary to nature and very wonderful.
Jews in the Middle Ages were divided as to whether these barnacle geese should be killed as flesh or as fish.
