236 NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



Description Where found Utility. 



time; and never fires till he can perceive the 

 eyes of the goose. He fires as they are going 

 from him; then picks up another gun that lies 

 by him, and discharges that also. The geese 

 that he has killed, he sets up on sticks, as if alive, 

 to decoy others: he also makes artificial birds 

 for the same purpose. In a good day (for they 

 fly in very uncertain and unequal numbers) a 

 single Indian will kill two hundred. Notwith- 

 standing each species of goose has a different 

 call, yet the Indians are admirable in their imir 

 tation of every one, 



THE SNOW GOOSE 



IS about tne size of the common goose. The 

 upper mandible of the bill is scarlet, and the 

 lower one whitish. The general colour of the 

 plumage is white; except the first ten quills of 

 the wings, which are black with white shafts. 

 The young are of a blue colour, till they are a 

 year old. The legs are red. 



These birds are very numerous about Hud-r 

 son's Bay ; where they are migratory, going far- 

 ther northward to breed. They are also found 

 in the northern parts of the Old Continent. 

 About Jakut, and the other parts of Siberia, they 

 afford great subsistence to the natives, and the 

 feathers are an article of commerce. Each 

 family will kill thousand* in a season, which* 



