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it reaches the 54th parallel on the 15th of April; the 

 57th, on the 25th of the same month ; the 64th parallel, 

 on the 20th of May ; and its breeding stations, in the 

 69th, by the beginning of June, when the snow is only 

 melted from some elevated spots. The snow goose 

 when fat is a very excellent bird, vieing with the laugh- 

 ing goose in its qualities as an article of diet. 



Hutchins' Goose. (Anser Hutchinsii.) F. B. A. 2. 



p. 470. 



This bird, in the colours of its plumage, strongly 

 resembles the Canada goose, and is often considered as 

 merely a small variety of that species. In its form, 

 however, it is more like the barnacle or brent, with 

 which it will be evidently associated in an ornitholo- 

 gical system. Mr. Audubon, who has given the only 

 figure that has been published of this species, thinks 

 that it is known in the state of Maine under the name 

 of winter or flight goose. It migrates along the coast 

 of Hudson's Bay, and breeds in the peninsulas of 

 Melville and Boothi-a, laying three or four eggs of a 

 pure white colour; and Captain James Ross informs 

 us that its flesh has a most exquisite flavour. It 

 arrived at Boothia about the middle of June. 



Beent Goose. (Anser bernicla.) F. B. A. 2. p. 4(39. 



This neat small goose is very numerous on the coast 

 of Hudson's Bay, in its passage to and from the north. 

 Captain James Ross states that it did not remain near 

 Felix Harbour (Boothia) to breed, but went still 

 farther north ; and that it is found during the summer 



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