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 Hulabia, has been 
separated from the genus Anser, 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 wealth of 
Anserine forms. Beside others, presently to be mentioned, its 
northern portions are the home of all the species of Snow-Geese 
belonging to the genus Chen. It is true that two of these are 
reported as haying appeared, and that not unfrequently, in Europe 
and Asia; but they possibly have been but stragglers from America. 
The first of these is C. hyperboreus, the Snow-Goose proper, a bird of 
large size, and when adult of a pure white, except the primaries, 
which 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. hyperboreus 
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. cxrulescens, 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 unjustly, the name of C. rossi. Its face 
is adorned with numerous papille, whence it has been removed by 
Mr. Elliot to a separate genus, Hzanthemops, 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, /Vawa, which signifies 
Goose. Finally, there appears to belong to this section (though it 
has been frequently referred to another, Chloephaga, and has also 
been made the type of a distinct genus, Philacte) the beautiful 
Painted or Emperor Goose, C, canagica, which is almost peculiar to 
