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the severe Avinter of 1841 three of these birds in the 

 lagoons of Emirbey, between Stilida and Thermopylse. 

 Their white plumage was mixed with greyish feathers, 

 and their feet and beak were blue grey. These 

 specimens were we think the same as figure 3 of 

 Naumann's plate." 



The following is Brisson's description: — "Head and 

 neck for nearly all its length is white, the top of the 

 head, however, is russet, and the upper part of the 

 neck is spotted with blackish; base of the neck, the 

 upper part of the back, the scapularies, the crop, and 

 the flanks are of a sombre brown; inferior part of the 

 back, the rump, and upper tail coverts of a bright 

 bluish ash. The abdomen, the upper part of the 

 thighs, and under tail coverts are white, slightly shaded 

 with brown; all the wing coverts bluish ash; primaries 

 blackish; secondaries of the same colour, but are 

 bordered with ash on their external web, and at their 

 tip. Tail composed of eighteen feathers, of a dull 

 brown, bordered with ash; the two middle slightly 

 longer than the laterals, which diminish gradually in 

 length to the most external, which is the shortest, 

 which thus give roundness to the end of the tail; the 

 beak, and that part of the thigh uncovered by 

 feathers, the tarsi, toes, and webs are red, with the 

 claws black. It is found in Hudson's Bay." 



The following is Latham's description: — "Male rather 

 less than a tame Goose. Bill red; iris deep chocolate; 

 crown of head yellowish, as though singed; rest of 

 head and neck white, the last spotted all the way 

 down at the back part with black; lower part of the 

 neck, all round the breast, sides, under the wings, 

 and back dark brown, palest on the breast; wing and 

 tail coverts pale bluish ash-colour; scapularies and tail 



