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L'Oye de Neige, Brlf, Orn. vi. p. 288. 10. 



White Brant, Law/tin's Carolina, p. 147. — Phil. Tranf. lxii. p. 413. 



Anfer Hypeiboreus, Pallas Spic. Fa/c. vi. p. 26. 



Snow Goofe, Arft. Zoo!. N° 477. 



OIZE of a Goofe: length two feet eight inches: weight be- 

 tween five and fix pounds : extent three feet and a half. Bill 

 fomewhat ferrated at the edges ; the upper mandible fcarlet ; 

 lower whitifh : irides reddifh : forehead yellowifh : general colour 

 of the plumage fnow white *, except the firfl ten quills, which 

 are black, with white fhafts : lower order of coverts, and baftard 

 wing, cinereous, with the fhafts black : legs of a deep red. 



The young are of a blue colour, till they are a year old. 



Thefe are very numerous at Hudfon's Bay, and called by the 

 natives Way-way, and Wapa wbe whe. Vifit Severn River in 

 May, and flay a fortnight; but go farther north to breed : they 

 return to Severn Fort the beginning of September, and flay to the 

 middle of Oclober, when they depart for the Jouth, and are ob- 

 ferved to be attended with their young, in flocks innumerable. 

 At this time many thoufands are killed by the inhabitants ; who 

 pluck them, and take out the entrails, and, putting the bodies 

 into holes dug in the ground, cover them with earth, which 

 freezing above them, keeps them perfectly fweet throughout the 

 fevere feafon ; during which there is no more to do than occa- 

 fionally to open one of thefe Jiorehoufes, when they find them 

 fweet and good. They feem to occupy alfo the wcfiern fide of 



** Mr. Hutchins obferves, that the wing coverts are light blue j perhaps fuch 

 birds may not be quite in their perfect ilate ? 



America, 



10. 

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Description 



Young. 

 Place and 

 Manners- 



