Word: northmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardly larger than a duck, Ross's goose is the smallest and rarest of American species. It is white, with black wing tips. Northmen call it the "galoot" or "scabby-nosed wavey" (its bill has rough bumps at the base). Its official name came from Bernard R. Ross, a Hudson's Bay Co. factor at Fort Resolution. In autumn the birds migrate south and west to spend the winter in California valleys...