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breast; wing and tail coverts pale, bluish ash-colour; scapulars and 

 tail striped white and grey ; greater quills dusky; belly, thighs, and 

 vent, white ; legs red. The female has the upper mandible black ; 

 base of the lower lead-colour, with the tip black; forehead white ; 

 between the bill and eye blackish ; the inner half of the tail feathers 

 white, the outer black. 



Inhabits America : found about the southern settlements of Hud- 

 son's Bay. In summer most numerous about Albany Fort ; migrates 

 according to the season, like many of the Duck kind : known by 

 the name of Cath catue we we.* 



A. — Blue-winged Goose, Gen. Si/n. Sup. ii. 346. Ind. Orn. ii. 827. j3. & y. 



The head in this and a little part of the neck are white behind, 

 mixed with black; half the neck before white; the rest of the bird 

 before much the same as in common. 



B. — In a third, the head, all the neck, the whole of the bod\% 

 except between the wings, of a pure white ; at the lower part of the 

 neck behind, and between the wings, dusky black, or deep lead- 

 colour ; scapulars the same, margined with white ; wing coverts as 

 generally seen in this species, but paler, and inclined to white ; the 

 second and third greater quills black ; the second quills black, beau- 

 tifully fringed on each side with white, purer than the others, but 

 not unlike; tail white; the four first feathers pale lead-colour down 

 the middle for half way from the base. 



A label attached to the last described, says, that it is produced 

 from a blue and a white Way way,f but this is only according to the 

 tradition of the Indians. 



The Blue-winged and Snow Species seem to be allied to each 

 other. It is probable that the Snow Goose may be the adult bird. 



* Mr. Hutchins. f Or Snow Goose. 



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