thers of the forehead produced forward on each fide of the upper
mandible : the lower part of the neck and bread: white, marked
acrofs with numerous narrow black bars: the upper part of the
back pale grey, barred in the fame manner with black: the lower
part of the back and fcapulars dulky a(h : wing coverts white :
at the bend of the wing a blunt knob: fecondary quills dulky,
with pale edges; prime quills and tail black: the middle of the
belly, thighs, and vent, white: over the thighs barred dulky
and white: legs black.
This was met with at Staaten-Land, in January. From Sir
Jofepb Banks’s drawings. It appears to be.the Painted Duck, mentioned
by Captain Cook *, which he fays is the fize of the
Mufcovy Duck: the plumage molt beautifully variegated : the
head and neck of the female white; but all the other feathers, as
well as thofe of the head and neck of the drake, are of a dark
variegated colour: both male and female have a large Ipot of white
on the wing.
We are not perfeftly clear, in refpect to the five laft numbers,
whether they form more or fewer real fpecies than we have
feparated them into; moft likely'the laft, as they appear to run
much one into another; and we will be much obliged to future
voyagers for better information.
I.’Oye tie Neige, Srif. Orn. vi. p. 288. 10.
White Brant, La*wfon’s Carolina, p. 147.— Phil. Tranf. lxii. p. 413.
Anfer Hyperboreus, Pallas Spic. Fafc. vi. p. 26.
Snow Goofe, ArS. Zool. N° 477.
g I Z E of a Goofet length two feet eight inches: weight between
five and fix pounds: extent three feet and a half. Bill
fomewhat ferrated at the edges; the upper mandible fcarlet;
lower whitilh : irides reddilh : forehead yellowifh : general colour
of the plumage fnow white *, except the firft ten quills, which
are black, with white lhafts : lower order of coverts, and baftard
wing, cinereous, with the lhafts black: legs of a deep red.
The young are of a blue colour, till they are a year old.
Thefe are very numerous at Hudfon’s Bay, and called by the
natives Way-way, and Wafa whe whe. Vifit Severn River in
May, and ftay a fortnight; but go farther north to breed : they
return to Severn Fort the beginning of September, and ftay to the
middle of October, when they depart for the foutb, and are ob-
ferved to be attended with their young, in flocks innumerable.
A t this time many thoufands are killed by the inhabitants; who
pluck them, and take out the entrails, and, putting the bodies
into holes dug in the ground, cover them with earth, which
freezing above them, keeps them perfectly fweet throughout the
fevere feafon ; during which there is no more to do than occa-
fionally to open one of thefe ftoreboufes, when they find them
fweet and good. They feem to occupy alfo the weftern fide of
* Mr. Hutchins obferves, that the wing coverts are light blue ; perhaps fuch
fcirds may not be quite in their perfeft ftate i
10.
SNOW G.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
Y o u n g *
P l a c e a n d
M a n n e r s .
America,