374 GOOSE 



a bird easily distinguished from any of the foregoing by the char- 

 acter implied by its English name ; but it is certainly somewhat 

 abnormal, and, indeed, under the name of Eulabia, has been 

 separated from the genus Amer, which has no other member 

 indigenous to the Indian Region, nor any at all to the Ethiopian, 

 Australian, or Neotropical Regions. 



But the New World possesses by far the greatest Avealth of 

 Anserine forms. Beside others, presently to be mentioned, its 

 northern portions are the home of all the species of Snow-Geese 

 belonsius: to the a:enus Chen. It is true that two of these are 

 reported as having appeared, and that not unfrequently, in Europe 

 and Asia ; but they possibly have been but stragglers from America. 

 The first of these is C. liijixrhoreus, the Snow-Goose proper, a bird of 

 large size, and when adult of a pure white, except the primaries, 

 Avhich are black. This has long been deemed a visitor, and some- 

 times in considerable numbers, to the Old World ; but the later 



Snow-Goose. Brant Goose. 



(After Swainson.) 



discovery of a smaller form, C. albatus, scarcely differing except in 

 size, throws some doubt on the older records, especially since 

 examples which have recently been obtained in the British Islands 

 undoubtedly belong to this lesser bird, and it would be satisfactory 

 to have the occurrence in the Old World of the true C. hyperhoreus 

 placed on a surer footing. So nearly allied to the species last 

 named as to have been often confounded with it, is the Blue winged 

 Goose, C. cserulescens, which is said never to attain a snowy plumage. 

 Then we have a very small species, long ago described as distinct 

 by Hearne, the Arctic traveller, but until 1861 discredited by 

 ornithologists. Its distinctness has now been fully recognized, and 

 it has received, somewhat luijustly, the name of C. rossi. Its face 

 is adorned with numerous papillae, whence it has been removed by 

 Mr. Elliot to a separate genus, Exanthemops, and for the same 

 reason it has, for more than a century, been known to the European 

 residents in the Fur Countries as the " Horned Wavey " — the last 

 word being a rendering of a native name, JFawa, which signifies 

 Goose. Finally, there appears to belong to this section (though it 

 has been frequently referred to another, CJiIoephaga, and has also 

 been made the type of a distinct genus, Philade) the beautiful 

 Painted or Emperor Goose, C. canagica, which is almost peculiar to 



