FAMILY XXV. 
LAMELLOSODENTATI, Illiger. 
GEKUS LXV. — ANASt Linnaeus. 
SUBGENUS I. — ANSER, 1 BISSON. 
254 . AA'AS nrrERBOREA, GMELIN AND WILSON, 
SNOW GOOSE. 
WILSON, PLATE LXVIII. FIG. V. MALE. 
EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
j bird is particularly deservinfr of the farther 
i“}'estigation of naturalists; for, if I do not greatly 
English writers have, from the various appear- 
which this species assumes in its progress to 
C^'cct plumage, formed no less than four dilFerent 
J^ds, which they describe as so many distinct species, 
[,*■ the snow goose, the white fronted or laughing 
the bean goose, the blue-winged goose, all of 
*"011, I have little doubt, will hereafter be found to be 
more than perfect and imperfect individuals, 
female, of the snow goose, now before us. 
^^his species, called on the sea coast the red goose, 
in the river Delaware from the north, early in 
^ '‘''ember, sometimes in considerable flocks, and is 
weniely noisy, their notes being shriller and more 
vieakiug than those of the Canada, or common wild 
their first arrival, they make but a short 
proceeding, as the depth of winter approaches, 
*yer to the south; but from the middle of February 
the breaking up of the ice in March, they are 
*lUently numerous along both shores of the Dela- 
0?r®> about and below Reedy Island, particularly near 
fj, '' Duck Creek, in the State of Delaware. They 
fj,''' On the roots of the reeds there, tearing them up 
*** the marshes like hogs. Their flesh, like most 
