38 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Branta canadensis htitchinsi (Richardson). Hutchins's Goose.^ 1172o.] 



Ayiser Hutchinsii Richardson, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna 

 Bor.-Amer., II, 1831 [1832], 470. (Melville Peninsula.) 



Range. — Breeds on Melville Peninsula, Southampton and Baffin islands, and 

 probably in other parts of eastern Arctic America. Migrates through Hudson 

 Bay, southern Manitoba, and the Mississippi Valley and winters on the Gulf 

 coast of Mexico. Casual on the Atlantic coast (Maryland and North 

 Carolina), 



Branta canadensis minima Ridgway. Cackling Goose. [172c.] 



Branta minima Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 1885, 22 [May 6]. 

 (Yukon delta and contiguous shores of Norton Sound = St. Michael, 

 Alaska.) 



Range. — Breeds on the sea-coast and probal>ly on adjacent islands of north- 

 western Alaska west of Pt. Barrow. Winters mainly in the Sacramento and 

 San Joaquin valleys of California; occasional east of the Cascades in British 

 Columbia. Casual on the Hawaiian Islands.^ 



Branta bemicla hrota (MtJLLER). American Brant. [173a.] 



Anas Hrota O. F. MtJLLER, Zool. Dan. Prodr., 1776, 14. (Isl[andis] 

 = Iceland.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Arctic regions of eastern North America, in the 

 Canadian Arctic Archipelago, northern Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg islands, 

 on both coasts of Greenland, and, apparently, the Spitzbergen Archipelago. 

 Winters on the Atlantic coast of America from New Jersey to North Carolina, 

 rarely to Massachusetts and Florida; also less frequently on the Pacific coast 

 of the United States and British Columbia and on the coasts of the British 

 Isles; common in migration on the lower St. Lawrence River. Casual in 

 Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba, North Dakota, Michigan, Ohio, 

 Wisconsin, Nebraska, Louisiana, and Texas and in Barbados. [A related race 

 occurs in the Arctic regions of Europe and Siberia, migrating south to the 

 Mediterranean.] 



Branta nigricans (Lawrence). Black Brant. [174.] 



Anser nigricans Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., IV, 1846, 171 (i)l. 

 xii). (Egg Harbor, N. J.) 



Range. — Breeds on Arctic coasts and islands from Siberia (Taimyr 

 Peninsula to Coronation Gulf), and on islands to about long. 100° W. Winters 

 mainly on the Pacific coast from Vancouver to Lower California, and on the 



^ This bird has been confused with leucopareia and most of the references to 

 hutchinsi in literature refer to that form. Cf. Taverner, Annual Report, 

 Nat. Mus. Canada for 1929, pp. 28-40. 



* This form may prove specifically distinct fropa %h^ B, canadensis group. 



