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SNOW GOOSE 

 Chen hyperboreus hyperboreus (Pallas) 



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Other Names. — Wavey ; Common Wavey ; Little 

 Wavey ; White Brant ; Lesser Snow Goose ; Common 

 Snow (ioose: White Goose; Mexican Goose. 



Length. — 25 inches. 



Description. — Bill, short and hi.gh at base, .\iiults : 

 Purr ;c/ii7r, the head washed with rusty brown; ^rima- 

 i-ies. ill-ay at base, black at cuds: bill, pale carmine-red 

 with white tip and black cutting edge; feet, pinkish-red; 

 eyes, dark brown. YouNc. : Entire plumage, gray, 

 lightening below ; streaked on head and neck very 

 faintly with darker ; more or less waved on back with 

 same; secondaries and primaries, dusky, the former 



with lit;hter edges; liill and feet, much darker than in 

 adult. 



Nest and Eggs. — Unknown. 



Distribution. — North America ; breeds from mouth 

 of the Alackcnzie east probably to Coronation Gulf and 

 Melville Island; occurs on the .Arctic coast of north- 

 eastern Asia, but not known to breed there ; winters 

 from southern Britisli Columbia, southern Colorado, 

 and southern Illinois soutli to northern Lower Cali- 

 fornia, central Mexico (Jalisco), Texas, and Louisiana, 

 and on the .Asiatic coast south to Japan ; generally rare 

 in eastern United States. 



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Drawing by R. I. Brasher 



SNOW GOOSE {{ nat. size) 

 Flocks, at rest, appear like banks of snow 



