a white-headed, gray color phase of the snow goose, Chen hyperborea, breeding on the Arctic islands.
See also: blue goose
- 1743  (1949)  Blew wy'wes, so calld, which they style (Kurskatawawawuck) is of a Blewish Colour intermix't with Black and white feathers. . . .
- 1932  He found great numbers of swans nesting at Cape Low, when he landed there in August, 1902: and during the fall of that year saw great quantities of white and blue wavies.