gray goose

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of large gray goose, Branta canadensis, with a black head and neck and white cheek patches.

Quotations

1717

The Indians ware out & brought home 4 Grey Geese.

1896

The "gray goose" is common throughout this region, at least during the migratory season, and furnishes food in the spring for many natives.

1942

The five big gray geese . . . were wearily walking among the rocks and gravel that edged the ice-fringed creek.

1959

Eastern Canada Goose [is also called] . . . grey goose (Rather general). . . .

a grayish-brown goose, Anser albifrons, having a white face and a black-blotched breast and breeding in the Canadian Arctic.

1922

Genus--Anser. Grey Goose. White-Fronted Goose. . . .

1954

Mr. Hamilton brought in a handsome grey goose that he said was identical with the variety known as the "grey Lag" in the far away Shetland Islands.