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Horned 
Wavcy. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
known to the moft accurate obferver as thofe of 
the Snow Geefe; for I never knew any of their 
egos taken, and their Winter haunts have hither- 
to been undifcovered. ‘Thofe birds are frequent- 
ly feen to lead a flock of the White ones; and, as 
they generally fly in angles, it is far from unplea- 
fant to fee a bird of a different colour leading the 
van. The leader is generally the object of the 
firft fportfman who fires, which throws the whole 
flock into fuch confufion, that fome of the other 
hunters frequently kill fix or feven at a fhot. 
Hornep Wavey. This delicate and diminu- 
tive fpecies of the Goofe is not much larger than’ 
the Mallard Duck. Its plumage is delicately 
white, except the quill-feathers, which are black: 
The bill is not more than an inch long, and at the 
bafe is ftudded round with little knobs about the 
fize of peas, but more remarkably fo in the males. 
Both the bill and feet are of the fame colour 
with thofe of the Snow Goofe. This fpecies is. 
very fcarce at Churchill River, and I believe are 
never found at any of the Southern fettlements ; 
but about two or three hundred miles to the- 
North Weft of Churchill, I have feen them in as 
large flocks as the Common Wavey, or Snow 
Goofe. The flefh of this bird is exceedingly de- 
licate; but they are fo fmall, that when I was on 
my journey to the North I eat two of them one 
night for fupper. Ido not find this bird defcrib- 
ed by my worthy friend Mr. Pennant in his Arc- 
tic Zoology. Probably a fpecimen of it was not 
fent 
