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67th parallel of latitude. Its call is much like the pro- 

 longed laugh of a man. Captain James Ross did not 

 see this goose on the peninsula of Boothia, and it does 

 not appear to be common on the coast of Hudson's Bay. 

 The autumn migration southwards of the laughing 

 goose commences early in September ; and its re- 

 turn at that season to the fur districts is often the first 

 indication of winter having begun within the arctic 

 circle. It passes on towards the United States, in 

 advance of the Canada goose ; and Mr. Audubon says 

 that it arrives before the latter in Kentucky, where 

 many of the species winter ; but many also, he is con- 

 vinced, go entirely to the southward of the United 

 States' boundary. The same gentleman informs us 

 that this species leaves its winter quarters a fortnight 

 sooner than the Canada goose, which is different from 

 the order of their appearance on the banks of the 

 Saskatchewan. Its flesh is superior to that of the 

 Canada goose. 



Snow Goose. (Anser hyperboreus.) F. B. A. 2. 



p. 467. 



This beautiful goose has exactly the gait and form of 

 the preceding; and is very little larger, when full 

 grown. The two species, according to Audubon, quit 

 their winter quarters, in the United States, at the same 

 time ; but the snow goose generally makes its first 

 appearance in the fur countries a few days later than 

 the laughing goose, though the main flocks of both pass 

 at the same time. The snow goose breeds in vast 

 numbers on the borders of the small lakes near the 

 coasts of the Arctic Sea, on the islands of the same, and 

 also on Melville Peninsula. In its journey northwards, 



