SNOW-GOOSE.
CHEN HYPERBOREUS (Pall.).
Anser hyperboreus, Pall. Spicilegia Zoologica, i. pt. 6, p. 25
(1769).
Chen. hyperboreuSj Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 275; Dresser, vi.
p . 413.
Schnee Gans, German.
This is a species of which I know absolutely nothing,
except from books, so I will confine myself to quoting
from Mr. H. Saunders’s ‘ Manual ’ to the effect that
five have been obtained in Ireland—three of them in
co. Wexford during the winter of 1871, and the other
two from a flock of seven near Belmullet, co. Mayo,
in October 1877. Of the two latter birds, one, a male,
paired with a Common Goose and had young. Another
specimen was identified on the coast of Cumberland by
the Rev. H. A. Macpherson and others in August 1884.
The home of this Goose is in North America.
Chen hyperboreus (PaUas).
