YOUNG OF THE SNOW GOOSE. 
113 
the sides both above and below, exposing the teeth of the up- 
per and lower mandibles, and furnished with a nail at the tip 
on both I the whole being of a light-reddish purple, or pale 
lake, except the gibbosity, which is black, and the two nails, 
which are of a pale light-blue; nostril, pervious, an oblong 
slit, placed nearly in the middle of the upper mandible ; irides, 
dark brown ; whole head, and half of the neck, white ; rest of 
the neck and breast, as well as upper part of the back, of a 
purplish brown, darkest where it joins the white ; all the fea- 
thers being finely tipt with pale brown ; whole wing-coverts, 
very pale ash, or light lead-colour ; primaries and secondaries, 
black ; tertials, long, tapering, centred with black, edged with 
light-blue, and usually fall over the wing ; scapulars, cinereous 
brown ; lower parts of the back and rump, of the same light 
ash as the wing-coverts ; tail, rounded, blackish, consisting of 
sixteen feathers, edged and tipt broadly with white ; tail-co- 
verts, white ; belly and vent, whitish, intermixed with cinere- 
ous ; feet and legs, of the same lake colour as the bill. 
This specimen was a female ; the tongue was thick and 
fleshy, armed on each side with thirteen strong bony teeth, 
exactly similar in appearance, as well as in number, to those 
on the tongue of the snow goose ; the inner concavity of the 
upper mandible was also studded with rows of teeth. The 
stomach was extremely muscular, filled with some vegetable 
matter, and clear gravel. 
With this, another was shot, differing considerably in its 
markings, having little or no white on the head, and being 
smaller ; its general colour, dark brown, intermixed with pale 
ash, and darker below, but evidently of the same species with 
the other. 
VOL. III. 
H 
