DCHP-3

gray wavey

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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

Quotations

1890
A considerable number of nests of this Grey Wavy was discovered in the vicinity of fresh water lakes in timbered tracts, as well as along the lower Anderson river to the sea.
1959
White-fronted Goose [is also called] . . . grey wavey. . . .