40 THE GAME BIRDS 
43. HUTCHINS’S GOOSE. 
Branta canadensis hutchinsii. 
This is a small variety of No. 42, about the 
size of No. 88, and frequents the western 
country more than the east. Another variety 
is the 
44, WHITE-CHEEKED GOOSE. 
Branta canadensis occidentalis. 
Which is a Pacific coast bird; and still an- 
other, 
45. CACKLING GOOSE. 
Branta canadensis minima. 
Smaller than any of the others and from 
the same section. 
There is no doubt that all these varieties 
are entitled to separate mention, but for our 
purpose they are about the same thing. 
Every gunner likes to know, however, what 
his game is, and for purposes of distinction 
I give Coues’s method of separating the 
varieties : — 
Large, no collar of white on neck, No. 42. 
Saal ees Paes ee = No. 48. 
Large, with “ Ke ss No. 44. 
Small. 5 ts 66 No. 45. 
