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NORTHERN OCEAN. 
fent home, for the perfon that commanded at 
Prince of Wales’s Fort* at the time the collection 
was making, did not pay any attention to it. 
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Laucuine Goosz. ‘This elegant {pecies has a yaughing 
white bill, and the legs and feet are of a fine yel- °°* 
low colour; the upper part of the plumage is 
brown, the breaft and belly white, the former 
prettily blotched with black. In fize they are 
equal to the Snow Goofe, and their fkins, when 
{tripped of their feathers, are delicately white, and 
the flefh excellent. ‘They vifit Churchill River 
in very fmall numbers; but about two hundred 
miles to the North Welt of that river I have feen 
them fly in large flocks, like the Common 
Waveys, or Snow Geefe; and near Cumberland 
Houle and Bafquiau they are found in fuch num- 
bers, that the Indians in moon-light nights fre- 
quently kill upwards of twenty at afhot. Like 
the Horned Wavey, they never fly with the lead 
of the coaft, but are always feen to come from the 
Weftward. Their general breeding-places are not 
known, though fome few of their eggs are occa- 
fionally found to the North of Churchill; but I 
never heard any Indian fay that he had feen any 
eggs of the Horned Wavey : it is probable they 
retire to North Greenland to breed; and their 
route in the Fall of the year, as they return South- 
ward, is equally unknown. ‘They are, I be- 
lieve, feldom feen on the coaft of Hudfon’s Bay 
to the Southward of latitude 59° North. 
Barren Gerse. ‘Thefe are the largeft of all garnen 
the Geefe. 
* Mr, Mofes Norton. 
