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SNOW GOOSE. 



PALMIPEDES. 



Famihj ANATID^. f Bonaparte.) 



Genus Anser. ( Brisson.J 



Generic Characters. — Beak as long as the head, or shorter, conic, deeper 

 than thick, and elevated at its base; mandibles furnished with pointed 

 and conical toothlets, formed by the extremities of the transverse lamina; 

 the inferior narrower than the upper ; nostrils median, lateral, and simple ; 

 thighs placed in the centre of gravity of the body; tarsi thick and elongated-, 

 toes of an average length, hind toe free and elevated; claws short and 

 obtuse. Wings medium sized, simple or armed, first and second primary 

 the longest; tail with sixteen or eighteen quills; lore feathered; neck of 

 average length ; trachea without folds or swelling in its lower part. 



SNOW GOOSE. 



Anser hyperhoreus. 



Anser hyperhoreus. 



niveus, 



Anas hyperhorea, 



Cheti hyperhorea, 

 Oie de neige ordinaire. 

 Genuine Schnecgans, 

 Wevois or Wavy, 



Pallas; Spicilegia Zoologica, fasc. 6, p. 20, 1780. 



Vieillot; Diet., 1818. 



Lesson; 1831. Temminck; 1840. 



Keyserling et Blasius. 



schinz. schlegel. 



Brisson; Ornith., vol. vi, p. 288. 



Meyer; Tasch. der Deuts., 1806. 



Gmelin; 1788. Latham; 1790. 



Temminck; 1820. 



BoiE. 



Of the French. 



Of the Germans. 



Of the Americans. 



Specific Characters. — Forehead much elevated; the sides of the beak 

 divided by longitudinal furrows and toothlets. — Temminck. 



Length thirty-two inches; carpus to tip sixteen inches and a half; bill 

 two inches three lines; tarsus three inches. — Nuttall. 



