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snow goose
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a white goose, especially Chen hyperborea.
Quotations
1795
The skin, when stripped of its feathers, is of the same colour as the Snow Goose, and they are equally good eating.
1963
. . . the cost is nothing compared to the thrill of seeing great honkers sweep in on their blind, of hearing and seeing the Cree Indians talk the language of the blue and snow geese and coax them right down to their shotgun muzzles.