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were taken, was shot on the Delaware, below Philadelphia, on 

 the fifteenth of February; and on dissection proved to be a male; 

 the windpipe had no labyrinth, but for an inch or two before 

 its divarication into the lungs, was inflexible, not extensile like 

 the rest, and rather wider in diameter. The gullet had an ex- 

 pansion before entering the stomach; which last was remarkably 

 strong, the two great grinding muscles being nearly five inches 

 in diameter. The stomach was filled with fragments of the roots 

 of reeds, and fine sand. The intestines measured eight feet in 

 length, and were not remarkably thick. The liver was small. 

 For the young and female of this species, see Plate Ixix, fig. 5. 

 Latham observes that this species is very numerous at Hud- 

 son's Bay ; that they visit Severn river in May, and stay a fort- 

 night, but go farther north to breed; they return to Severn Fort 

 the beginning of September, and stay till the middle of October, 

 when they depart for the south, and are observed to be attended 

 by their young in flocks innumerable. They seem to occupy 

 also the Western side of America, as they were seen at Aoo- 

 nalashka* as well as at Kamtschatka.t White Brant with black 

 tips to their wings, were also shot by captains Lewis and Clark's 

 exploring party, near the mouth of the Columbia river, which 

 were probably the same as the present species.^ Mr. Pennant 

 says "they are taken by the Siberians in nets, under which 

 they are decoyed by a person covered with a white skin, and 

 crawling on all-fours; when others driving them, these stupid 

 birds mistaking him for their leader, follow him, when they are 

 entangled in the nets, or led into a kind of pound made for the 

 purpose!" We might here with propriety add This wants 

 confirmation. 



* ELLIS'S Nan-. f Hist. Kamtsch. { GASS'S Journal, p. 161. 



