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to be a male. The windpipe had no labyrinth, but for an inch or 
two before its divarication into the lungs, Avas inflexible, not exten- 
sile like the rest, and rather wider in diameter. The gullet had 
an expansion before entering the stomach ; which last was remark- 
ably 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 female of this species, see Plate LXIX, 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 Aoonalashka’^ 
as well as at Kamtschatka.-f" 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 ; 
Avhen others driving them, these stupid birds mistaking him for 
their leader, follow him, when they are entangled in the nets, oi- 
led into a kind of pound made for the purpose !” We might here 
with propriety add — This wants confirmation. 
Ellis’s Narr. f Hist. Kamtsch. § Gass’s Journal, p. 161 . 
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