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15LUE-WINGED GOOSE. 



speaks from his own practical knowledge, gained on 

 the spot, which, of all others in the world, is that 

 most frequented by these birds. He says, '-'About this 

 there can be no mistake," namely, that A. hijperhoreus 

 and A. ccBvulescens are distinct, though closely-allied 

 species. The latter bird he says is "of all the Geese 

 enumerated the least known, and it is possible fre- 

 quents in summer only James's Bay and the east main 

 of Labrador, at the extremity of which peninsula it 

 hatches. Of its winter haunts I cannot speak with 

 certainty, not having seen them either on the Columbian 

 or on the north-west coast. It may be that they adopt 

 the sea-coast in a lower latitude as a home, and are 

 to be found towards Southern Mexico." 



"By an Indian report a great breeding-ground for 

 the Blue Wavy is the country lying in the interior 

 from the north-east point of Labrador — Cape Dudley 

 Digges. Extensive swamps and impassable bays prevail 

 there ; and the Geese incubate on the more solid and 

 driest tufts dispersed over the morass, safe from the 

 opproach of man or other than a winged enemy." — 

 ("Ibis," vol. ii, p. 257.) 



As to its European locality we may speak confidently 

 of many instances in which it has been called the 

 young of the Snow Goose. Thus, the two specimens 

 described by Temminck in his "Manuel," vol. ii, p. 

 817, must be referred to this species, and in fact are 

 so mentioned by that author, but with the reservation 

 that A. cmrulescens is the young of A. hyperhoreus . 



The birds described in the following extract from 

 Count IMiihle's work on the birds of Greece, are, in 

 all probability, referable to this species: — "Very rare 

 among the Geese which come into Greece. They were 

 observed by my friend Lieut. Dillmann, who shot in 



