ORDER ANSERIFORMES. 37 



Gulf of Mexico and southern California. Now so greatly reduced in numbers 

 that only a few are living in a wild state in British Columbia, Alberta, and the 

 Yellowstone Park region. 



Subfamily ANSERINAE. Geese. 



Genus BRANTA Scopoli. 



Branta Scopoli, Annus I, Historico-Naturalis, 1769, 67. Type, by tau- 

 tonymy. Anas bernicla Linn-VEUS {Branta Aldrovandus in synonymy), 



Branta canadensis canadensis (Lintstaeus). Common Canada Goose. [172.] 



Anas canadensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 123. Based mainly 

 on The Canada Goose, Anser canadensis Catesby, Carolina, I., 92. (in 

 Canada.) 



Range. — Breeds from Mackenzie and northern Quebec to Labrador, south 

 to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, James Bay, South Dakota, northern Colorado, 

 northern Utah, northern Nevada, and northern California, west to central 

 Oregon, central Washington, central British Columbia and occasionally, at 

 least formerly, in Tennessee (Reelfoot Lake) and Arkansas (Walker Lake). 

 Winters from southern British Columbia, northwestern Wyoming, South 

 Dakota, southern Wisconsin, southern Ontario, southern New England, and 

 Nova Scotia south to Florida, the Gulf coast of Louisiana, Texas, Mexico, and 

 southern California and west to the Pacific coast in British Columbia. Casual 

 in Bermuda and Jamaica. 



Branta canadensis occidentalis (Baird). White-cheeked Goose. [1726.] 



Bernicla occidentalis Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. 

 and Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, 766. (Port Townsend, W[ashington]. 

 T[erritory].) 



Range. — The Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, and along the 

 coast of southeastern Alaska to the vicinity of Prince William Sound. 



Branta canadensis leucopareia (Brandt). Lesser Canada Goose. [172<i.] 



A7iser leucopareius Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., I, No. 

 5, May 11, 1836, 37. (Aleutian Islands.) 



Range. — Breeds from the Arctic coast of Alaska, Yukon Territory, and 

 Mackenzie to Southampton Island. Winters from northern Washington to 

 northern Mexico. 



