78 SNOW GOOSE. 



windpipe had no labyrinth, but for an inch or two before its diva* 

 rication into the lungs, was inflexible, not extensile like the rest, 

 and rather wider in diameter. The gullet had an expansion be- 

 fore entering the stomach; which last was remarkably strong, the 

 two great grinding muscles being nearly five inches in diameter. 

 The stomach was filled with fragments of the roots of reeds, and 

 fine sand. The intestines measured eight feet in length, and were 

 not remarkably thick. The liver was small. For the young and 

 female of this species, see Plate Ixix, fig. 5. 



Latham observes that this species is very numerous at Hud- 

 son's Bay ; that they visit Severn river in May, and stay a fort- 

 night, but go farther north to breed ; they retiu^n to Severn Fort 

 the beginning of September, and stay till the middle of October, 

 when they depart for the south, and are observed to be attended 

 by their young in flocks innumerable. They seem to occupy also 

 tlie Western side of America, as they were seen at Aoonalashka* 

 a3 well as at Kamtschatka.t White Brant with black tips to their 

 wings, were also shot by captains Lewis and Clark's exploring 

 party, near the mouth of the Columbia river, which were proba- 

 bly the same as the present species.! Mr. Pennant says "they 

 are taken by the Siberians in nets, under which they are decoyed 

 by a person covered with a white skin, and crawling on all-fours ; 

 when others driving them, these stupid birds mistaking him for 

 their leader, follow him, when they are entangled in the nets, or 

 led into a kind of pound made for the purpose !" We might here 

 with propriety add — This wants conjirination. 



* Ellis's Narr. 



f Hist. Kamtseli. 



i Gass's Journal, p. 16 ! . 



