SXOW GOOSE* 



(Anser hyperborea.) 



As. corpore niveo, ant griseo, subtus albo, j route jlavescente, 



rostro, pedibusque rubris. 

 Goose with the body snowy, or grey, beneath white, the forehead 



yellowish, the beak and legs red. 

 Anser hyperboreus. Pallas, Spic. \\.p. 26. 

 Anser nireus. Briss. Orn. 6. 288. 

 Anas hyperborea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 504. Lath. Ltd. Orn. 2. 



837. 

 Oie hyperboree, ou de neige. Temm. man. d'Orn. 525. Id. 



2 Edit. ii. 816. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 53 i. 

 Snow Goose. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 479. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 



445. WUs. Amer. Orn. viii. p. 76. /;/. 68. f. 5. old male. 

 YOUNG. Anas caerulescens. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 198. GmeL 



Syst. Nat. 1. 513. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 836. 

 Anser sylvestris freti Hudsonis. Briss. Orn. 6. 2/5. 

 L'Oie des Esquimaux. Bujf. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 80. 

 Blue-winged Goose. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 474. Ediv. Glean. 



pi. 152. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 469. Lath. Syn. Snp. ii. 346. 



It'iLs. Amer. Orn. viii. p. Sd.pl. \x\\.f. 5. 



ABOUT thirty inches in length : the upper man- 

 dible of the beak is bright red, the lower whitish ; 

 the hooks of both blue : the irides are grey-brown : 

 naked circle round the eyes fine red : the forehead 

 yellowish : the head, neck, and body are pure white : 

 the quills are white for half their length, the rest 

 black : the legs are of a very deep red : the young of 

 the first year, and until the age of four, differ very 

 much from the old : at first all the plumage is of a 

 grey-brown or bluish ; then the head and part of the 



v. xn. P. ii. 3 



