SNOW-GOOSE. 



CHEN HYPERB ORE US {Pall). 



Anser hyperboreus, Pall. Spicilegia Zoologica, i. pt. 6, p. 25 

 (1769). 



Chen hyperboreus, Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 275 ; Dresser, vi. 

 p. 413. 



Schnee Gans, German. 



This is a species of which I know absolutely nothing, 

 except from books, so I will confine myself to quoting 

 from Mr. H. Saunders's ' Manual ' to the effect that 

 five have been obtained in Ireland — three of them in 

 co. Wexford during the winter of 1871, and the other 

 two from a flock of seven near Belmullet, co. Mayo, 

 in October 1877. Of the two latter birds, one, a male, 

 paired with a Common Goose and had young. Another 

 specimen was identified on the coast of Cumberland by 

 the Rev. H. A. Macpherson and others in August 1884. 

 The home of this Goose is in North America. 



