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SNOW GOGS E. 



.■courfe is from the eaft, tending to the frozen ocean ; and fpreading 

 ;to the eftuaries of the J ana and Lem before the ice is broken up^ 

 .Finding the want of fubfiftence, they bend their journey a little 

 fouthward, in fearch of the infefts and plants which abound in the 

 inland lakes and moors. In this manner they penetrate as low as 

 Jakut, and very rarely farther, except in very fmall detachments, 

 which ftray towards the Olecma, and fometiraes by accident to the 

 junflion of the Wilim with the Lena. They make very little flay 

 in thofe parts ; but again tend direftly to the JrSfic coafts o^ Sibiria, 

 where they breed ; but rhey do not take the fame route, keeping more 

 eafterly, towards the Jana and Indigirka. It is obfervable, that 

 • they never migrate wefbward beyond long. 130, a little beyond the 

 -mouth of tht.Lena ; neither is their migration by fo high a latitude 

 .as Kamtfchatka, where they are extremelr rare * ; or their flight 

 over that country may be fo lofty as to render their courfe im- 

 perceptible. In the beginning of winter they are feen flying at a 

 great height over Silefta; but it does not appear that they continue 

 there, being only on their paflTage to fome other country f- 



The general winter quarters of this fpecies feems to be the tem- 

 perate and warm part of Nm-th America. 

 Stupidity. They are the moll numerous and the moftftupid of all the Goofe 



race. They feem to want the inftinft of others, by their arriving 

 ^ at the mouths of the Ar-Sllc JJiatk rivers before the feafon in which 



they can pofTibly fubfift. They are annually guilty of the fame 

 miftake, and annually compelled to make a new migration to the 

 fouth in quell of food, where they pafs their time till the northern 

 eftuaries are freed from the bonds of ice. 

 'Manner of tak- They have fo little of the fhynefs of other Geefe, that they are 

 i"o- taken in the moft ridiculous manner imaginable, about Jakut, and 



the other parts of Sibiria which they frequent. The inhabitants 

 firft place, near the banks of the rivers, a great net, in a ftrait line, 



•^ JDef<r. Kamtfih. 496. + Schwenifelt An, Sitejtas 215. 



