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:2| feet long, and 31 broad; their eyes are 

 j black, the irides fmall and red, the legs like- 

 wife red ; they feed along the fea, and are 

 fine eating ; their young are bluifh grey, and 

 i do not attain a perfect whitenefs till they are 

 . a year old. They viiit Severn river firfl in 

 the middle of May, on their journey north- 

 ward, where they breed j return in the be- 

 ginning of September, with their young, 

 fraying at Severn fettlement about a fortnight 

 esch time. The Indian name is Way-way, 

 at Churchill river* Linneus has not taken 

 notice of this fpecies. 



Anas. 46. Canadenfis. 198. 14. Canada Goofe, 

 Faun. Am. Sept. 16. Edw. 151. Catefby I. 

 92, &c. 



Severn River, N° 42. 



The Canada geefe are very plentiful at Hud- 

 fon's Bay, great quantities of them are falted, 

 but they have a fifty tafte. The fpecimen 

 fent over agrees perfectly with the defcri po- 

 tions and drawings. At Hudfon's Bay this 

 fpecies is called the Small Grey Goofe. Befides 

 this, and the preceding white goofe, Mr. Gra- 

 ham, the gentleman who fent the account 

 from Severn fettlement, mentions three other 

 fpecies of wild geefe to be met with at Hud- 

 fon's Biy j he calls them, 



.1 . The large Grey Goofe. 



2. The Blue Goofe. 



3. The Laughing Goofe, 



4 The 



