a smallish white goose, Chen rossii, that breeds in the Far North.
See also: Ross's goose
- 1795  (1911)  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.