Cereopsis

Cereopsis (Gr., ' wax-face '), a genus of birds of the family Anatidæ, to which the New Holland goose (C. novæ hollandiæ) belongs. This bird has been known since the southern shores of Australia were first visited by navigators. There, and on the adjacent islands, they were found in great abundance; and so little were they acquainted with the danger to be apprehended from man, that the earlier navigators easily supplied themselves with fresh provisions by knocking them down with sticks. The flight is slow and heavy, and the bird is naturally becoming less abundant. The cere (see BILL) is remarkably large, whence the name.