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rAl.MirEDES. 



Famili/ ANATIDJE. f Bonaparte.) 



Genus Axsee. fBrisson.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 featliered; neck of 

 average length; trachea without folds or swelling in its lower 

 part. 



SNOW GOOSE. 



Anser Jtyperhoretis. 



Anser liyperhoreus, Pallas; Spicilegia Zoologica, 



fasc. 6, p. 20, 1780. 

 ViEILLOT; Diet. 1818. 

 " Lesson; 1831. Temminck; 1840. 



" Ketseeling et Blasius. 



" schinz. schlegel. 



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



Meyek; Tasch. der Deuts., 1806. 



