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SNOW GOOSE. 
lower extremity, the cuticular lining thick, very hard, and denticulate on 
one side. The intestine seven feet long, the coeca twelve inches, and 
placed at the distance of one foot from the anus. 
SNOW GOOSE. 
Anser htperboreus, Gmel. 
PLATE COOLXXXI. — Adult Male and Tounu Female. 
The geographical rang* of the Snow Goose is very extensive. It has 
been observed in numerous flocks, travelling northward, by the members of 
the recent overland expeditions. On the other hand, I have found it in 
Texas, and it is very abundant on the Columbia river, together with 
Hutchins’ Goose. In the latter part of autumn, and during winter, I have 
met with it in every part of the United States that I have visited. 
While residing at Henderson on the Ohio, I never failed to watch the 
arrival of this and other species in the ponds of the neighbourhood, and 
generally found the young Snow Geese to make their appearance in the 
beginning of October, and the adult or white birds about a fortnight later. 
In like manner, when migrating northward, although the young and the 
adult birds set out at the same time, they travel in separate flocks, and, 
according to Captain Sir George Back, continue to do so even when pro- 
ceeding to the higher northern latitudes of our continent. It is not less 
curious that, during the whole of the winter, these Geese remain equally 
divided, even if found in the same localities ; and although young and old 
are often seen to repose on the same sand-bar, the flocks keep at as great a 
distance as possible. 
The Snow Goose in the grey state of its plumage is very abundant in 
winter, about the mouths of the Mississippi, as well as on all the muddy and 
grassy shores of the bays and inlets of the Gulf of Mexico, as far as Texas, 
and probably still farther to the south-west. During the rainy season, it 
betakes itself to the large prairies of Attacapas and Oppellousas, and there 
young and adult procure their food together, along with several species of 
Ducks, Herons, and Cranes, feeding, like the latter, on the roots of plants, 
