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where it has most often been met with, and considerable flocks have been known to pass there. 

 He gives two instances of single individuals having been seen in Anhalt, and two in Greifswald, 

 and considers that these occurrences may be relied on. Bechstein saw a large flock on the 

 13th of January, 1792, passing over the Thiiringerwald ; and one out of this flock was shot. 

 Degland and Gerbe write that an immature bird was killed near Aries iu the winter of 1829, 

 and sent to M. Crespon, of Nismes, this being the only record of its occurrence in France. 

 Von der Muhle states that it occurs in Greece ; and Lindermayer writes that he has seen 

 white Geese in the Gulf of Atalanti, but did not succeed in shooting one. 



As before stated, the continent of North America is the true home of this Goose ; but it is 

 also found on the Atlantic islands. In Cuba, Dr. Degland writes, it is " common from October 

 to April. In October 1845 two came to a pond on which some tame Geese were swimming, and 

 were easily shot. When the Cienega de Zapata begins to dry up, the dried-up portions are 

 covered with Snow-Geese, of which I have killed at least thirty in one season." Albrecht 

 records it from Jamaica ; and it has also occurred on the Bermudas. Mr. Hodgson Smith shot 

 two young birds on the 19th of October, 1848, in Riddle's Bay; and again in October 1849 two 

 others were shot. Dr. Elliot Coues gives its range as " North America, U. S. ; " in winter 

 extremely abundant in the west, much less so in the east ; and Audubon writes that " the 

 geographical range of the Snow-Goose is very extensive. It has been observed in numerous 

 flocks, travelling northward, by the members of the recent overland expeditions. On the other 

 hand, I have found it in Texas ; and it is very abundant on the Columbia river, together with 

 Hutchins's Goose. In the latter part of autumn, and during winter, I have met with it in 

 every part of the United States that I have visited. 



" While residing at Henderson, on the Ohio, I never failed to watch the arrival of this and 

 other species in the ponds of the neighbourhood, and generally found the young Snow-Geese to 

 make their appearance in the beginning of October, and the adult or white birds about a fort- 

 night later. In like manner, when migrating northward, although the young and the adult 

 birds set out at the same time, they travel in separate flocks, and, according to Captain Sir 

 George Back, continue to do so even when proceeding to the higher latitudes of our continent. 

 It is not less curious that, during the whole of the winter, these Geese remain equally divided, 

 even if found in the same localities ; and although young and old are often seen to repose on 

 the same sand-bar, the flocks keep at as great a distance as possible. The Snow-Goose in the 

 grey state of its plumage is very abundant in winter about the mouths of the Mississippi, as 

 well as on all the muddy and grassy shores of the bays and inlets of the Gulf of Mexico, as far 

 as Texas, and probably still further to the south-west. During the rainy season it betakes itself 

 to the large prairies of Attacapas and Oppellousas ; and there young and adult procure their food 

 together, along with several species of Ducks, Herons, and Cranes, feeding, like the latter, on 

 the roots of plants, and nibbling the grasses sideways, in the manner of the Common Tame 

 Goose. In Louisiana I have not unfrequently seen the adult birds feeding in wheat-fields, when 

 they pluck up the plants entire. When the young Snow-Geese first arrive in Kentucky, about 

 Henderson for instance, they are unsuspicious, and therefore easily procured. In a half-dry, 

 half-wet pond running across a large tract of land on the other side of the river, in the State 

 of Indiana, and which was once my property, I was in the habit of shooting six or seven a day. 



