SNOW GOOSE. 
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were taken, was shot on the Delaware, below Philadelphia, on 
the fifteenth of February; and on dissection proved to be a male; 
the windpipe had no labyrinth, but for an inch or two before 
its divarication into the lungs, was inflexible, not extensile like 
the rest, and rather wider in diameter. The gullet had an ex- 
pansion before 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 return 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 the Western side of America, as they were seen at Aoo- 
nalashka* as 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 probably 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 herewith propriety add — This wants 
confirmation. 
* Ellis’s Narr. 
t Hist. Kamtsch. 
t Gass’s Journal, p. 161. 
