DCHP-3

horned wavey

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a smallish white goose, Chen rossii, that breeds in the Far North.

Quotations

1795
Horned Wavey. This delicate and diminutive species of the Goose is not much larger than the Mallard Duck.
1945
Described quite accurately by Samuel Hearne . . . --he called it [Ross's Goose] the Horned Wavey from the numerous warts on the bill--nearly a century elapsed before this little goose received a name.