Genus Chen, Boie (1822 



Whole tail white or with feeble greyish tint (in young birds). Adult pure white, 

 except black primaries ; plumage of young birds light grey. Along each edge of lower 

 and upper mandibles a black stripe. Legs and bill red in adult, and grey in young. 



THE SNOW-GOOSE 



Chen hyperboreus, Pallas 

 Plate 1 



English. — Snow-Goose ; Amer. — White Brant ; White Brand (Carolina) ; Wavey ; Wae- 

 Wae ; Wevoi ; Mexican Goose ; Red Goose (Wilson) ; Fish Brant ; Texas Goose. 



Russian — Bely gits ; snezhny gus ; poly amy and severny gus (Vavilov) ; maly bely gus 

 (Buturlin). 



Tatar — Kuba-gaz (on Caspian). 1 



Yakut — Yurgun-kaz (white goose). 



Ostyak (Berezovst) — Ungula-khoteng {teste Pallas, " dumb swan "). 



Lamut — Gilt Ш: 



Samoyed — Yuraki- Varakh. 



Kamchadal — Khynkct. 



Uka — Keishuash (Kamchatka). 



Japanese — Hakugan. 



French. — Chen hyperbore\ Oie des Esquimaux ; Oie de neige. 



German. — Schnee Gans ; Weisse Gans ; Nord-gaus ; Polar Gans. 



Anser hyperboreus, Pallas, Spic. Zool, vi. p. 25 (1767); id., Zoogr. Ross.-As., ii. p. 227, pi. 65 (181 1); Kessler, 

 Russk. Orn., p. 372 (1848); Menzbier, Pt. Ross., i. p. 722 (1895); id, Prom. Pt Ross, i Kavk., p. 459, 

 pi. 129 (1902); Buturlin, Tabl. Opr. Plast. (" Psov. i Ruzh. Okh.," 1900); id., separ., pp. 5 and 6 ; id., 

 Dikie Gusi Rossiisk. Imp. (" Psov. i Ruzh. Okh.," 1901, Feb., Ap.) ; id, separ., p. 9 ; id., Sinopt. tabl. Okh. 

 Pt. Ross. Imp., p. 42 (1901); Yablonsky, « Prir. i Okh.," 1891 (vii.), p. 58 (Minus. Yenis. g.) ; 

 Radde, Ornis Cauc, p. 446(1884); Buturlin, " Prir. i Okh.," 1896 (Feb., Mar.) ; id., " Psov. i Ruzh. 

 Okh.," 1899 (Nov.); Menzbier, "Prir. i Okh.," 1898 (Aug.); Sabancyev, Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1871, ii. ; id, 

 "Zhurn. Imp. Obshch. Okh.," 1874 (vii.), P- 14; **, Ukaz. Kn. i St. Okh. i Zool. god., p. 455 (1883); 

 Seebohm, Ibis, 1844, p. 32 (Japan) ; Palmen, Bidr. Sibirisk Ishafsk. Fogelf. Vega Exp., p. 417 ; Finsch, 

 Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1879, s. 260; Collett, Ornith. Jahrb., 1890, i. p. 37. 



Anas hyperboreus, Sevast., in note top. 474 " Opisanie Kamchatki," Krasheninnikov (1818). 



1 Dr. G. T. Radde explains the name Kuba-gaz, given to this goose near Leukoran, by the fact that it migrates thither from the 

 north, in the direction from Kuba, lying to the north of Leukoran. 



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