ORDER ANSERIFORMES. 39 



Asiatic coast to northern China and Japan; casually in the interior in Oregon 

 Nevada, Utah, and Oklahoma. Accidental on the Atlantic coast (Massa- 

 chusetts, New York, and New Jersey) and in the Hawaiian Islands. 



*Branta leucopsis (Bechstein). Barnacle Goose. [175.] 



Alias leucopsis Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. Deutschl., II, 1803, 424. 

 (auf dem Zuge, Deutschland = Germany.) 



Range. — Breeds in northeastern Greenland, Spitzbergen, Novaya Zemlya 

 (possibly), the Lofoten Islands, and in northwestern Siberia. Winters in 

 northwestern Europe, south to the Baltic and North seas, and the British 

 Isles; occasionally to Switzerland and Austria, and rarely to the Azores, Spain, 

 Morocco, and Italy; occurs in Iceland in migration. Casual in Labrador, 

 southern Baffin Island, Quebec, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York (Long 

 Island), and North Carolina.^ 



Genus PHILACTE Bannister. 



Philacte Bannister, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XXII] 1870, No. 3, 

 Aug.-Dec. [March 14, 1871], 131. Type, by monotypy. Anas caimgica 

 Sevastianoff. 



Philacte canagica (Sevastianoff). Emperor Goose. [176.] 



Anas ca?iagica Sevastianoff, Nova Acta Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop., XIII, 

 1802, 349 (pi. x). (Probably Kanaga (or Kyktak) Island, Aleutian 

 Islands.) 



Range. — ^Breeds on the northwest coast of Alaska from the mouth of the 

 Kuskokwim River to the north side of the Seward Peninsula, Pt. Barrow, St. 

 Lawrence Island, and the coast of Siberia from East Cape to Koliuchin Bay. 

 Winters mainly in the Aleutian Islands and along the Alaska Peninsula as far 

 east as Bristol Bay, and west to the Commander Islands, straggling to central 

 British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, and the Hawaiian Islands. 



Genus ANSER Brisson. 



Anser Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 58; VI, 261. Type, by tautonymy, Anser 

 domestica Brisson = Anas anser Linnaeus (.^4 riser in synon. cf. Op. 

 16, Internat. Comm. Zool. Nomencl.). 



Anser albifrons albifrons (Scopoli). White-fronted Goose. [171.] 



Branta albifrons Scopoli, Annus I, Historico-Naturalis, 1769, 69. (No 

 locality given.) 



Range. — Breeds in Arctic America from the Yulvon Valley east to Anderson 

 River and Clinton-Colden Lake, Mackenzie, and also on the west coast of 



1 Bent, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 130, 1925, 263. 



