40 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Greenland, Iceland, Lapland, and on the Arctic coast of Siberia to Bering Strait. 

 Winters in western United States east to the Mississippi Valley, from southern 

 British Columbia and southern Illinois south to the coast of Louisiana and 

 Texas and to central western Mexico; also reaches Japan, China, and northern 

 Africa. Casual on Hudson Bay, in Quebec, Ontario, on the Atlantic coast 

 (Labrador, Massachusetts, Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina), 

 and in Cuba. 



Anser albifrons gambelli Hartlaub. Tule Goose. [171a.] 



Anser Gambelli Hartlaub, Revue et Mag. Zool., ser. 2, IV, [No. 1] Jan., 

 1852, 7. (Texas et du sud de rAmerique du nord = Southern part 

 of North America.) 



Range. — Breeding range unknown, probably somewhere in Arctic America. 

 Winters in the Sacramento Valley, California. 



♦ Anser fabalis (Latham). Bean Goose. [171.1.] 



Alias Fabalis Latham. General Synops., SuppL, I, 1787, 297. (England.) 



Range. — ^Breeds in northern Europe and northern Asia, from Russian 

 Lapland east to the Yenesei River and north to Novaya Zemlya. Winters 

 south to southern Europe, China,, and northern Africa. Accidental in Green- 

 land.i 



♦ Anser brachyrhynchus Baillon. Pink-footed Goose. [171.2.] 



Anser hrachyrhynchus Baillon, Mem. Soc. Roy. d'Emul. d' Abbeville, 

 1833 [1834], 74. (AbbeviUe, France.) 



Range. — Breeds in Spitzbergen, Iceland, and eastern Greenland.^ Winters 

 in northern Europe south to Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia. 

 Accidental in Massachusetts (Ipswich, Sept. 25, 1924).' 



Genus CHEN Boie. 



Chen Boie, Isis von Oken, [X] 1822, Heft v (May), col. 563. Type, by 

 monotypy, Anser hyperboieus Pallas. 



Subgenus CHEN Boie. 



Chen hyperborea hyperborea (Pallas). Lesser Snow Goose. [169.] 



Anser hyperborens Pallas, Spic. Zool., I, Fasc. \'i, 1769, 25. (in terris 

 borealibus ad Orientem 130° longitudinis sive circa Lenam et lanam 

 fluvios = northeastern Siberia.) 



Range. — Breeds along the Arctic coast from Point Barrow, Alaska, to South- 

 ampton Island and southern Baffin Island and on Arctic islands to the north; 



1 Winge, Vidensk. Meddel. naturh. Foren. Kjobenhaven, 1895, 63 [author's 

 separate]. (Not accepted by Schipler.) 



2 Winge, Groenlands Fugle, 1898, 115. 



3 Brooks, Auk, XLII, 1925, 265. 



