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Head and neck, back, wings, tail, breast, abdomen, and flank grey 
brown, each feather edged with lighter, and sometimes with white 3 
vent, under tail coverts, and rump white; bill black, with a band of — 
yellow (in some specimens strongly tinged with pink) surrounding : 
both mandibles near the extremity. 
ANSOY SCQCTUM. scnvassessocase sa’ Steph. Sh. Zool. 12. 27. 
Anas segetum™ ......c0.s-50. ++ Gmel. Syst. 1. 512: 
a hie veces . Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 8438. 
ANSER ROSSII. 
Anser.—Pennis atris, rostro rubido. 
White goose; with black quills; bill red. 
IN. ; IN. 
FCG Wes csceedhvonveaks 22 WI GHALOTSUS ce tsidacnecsau 23 
WSU cae Sts .taneaaees 14 Middle. 406. vanictevitda tee J2o 
Precisely similar to Hyperboreus, but much smaller. 
ANSOT ROBSED cos Gare Sonn hoes Baird. 
In the British Museum; was obtained from California and North 
America. 
Besides the above, there is a mounted bird in the Derby Museum, 
with white quill feathers, but in other respects similar to Hyperboreus. 
ANSER HYPERBOREUS. 
Anser.—Albus pennis atris. 
SNOW GOOSE. 
White goose; with the quills black. 
IN. IN. IN. 
Length... - 814 Bials givus + LOE Sis cs ants 23 
White, with the quills black; the legs orange; bill black. In ~ 
the young state this bird has the wing coverts blue, and the remainder 
of the plumage more or less tinged with cinereous. The bill of this 
Species gapes more at the sides than in any other of the genus. 
