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ANSER ALBIFRONS. THE WHITE-FRONTED 

 GOOSE. 



LAUGHING GOOSE. BALD GOOSE. 



Anas erythropus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 197. 



Anas albifrons. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 509. 



Anas albifrons. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 842. 



"White-fronted Goose. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Anas albifrons. Oie rieuse ou a front blanc. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 821. 



Oie rieuse. Anser albifrons. Temm. Man. III. 518. 



White-fronted Wild Goose. Anser erythropus. Selby, Illustr. II. 266. 



Anser albifrons. White-fronted Goose. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 223. 



Anser albifrons. Bonap. Comp. List. 55. 



Male twenty-eight inches long; bill thick, short, an inch 

 and two-thirds in length, an inch in height at the base, car- 

 mine red, with the unguis white; tarsus three inches Jong, 

 bright orange-red, the claws whitish ; the icings longer than 

 the tail ; feathers of the neck linear -oblon g , disposed in ridges ; 

 head and neck greyish-brown ; forehead white, with a black 

 band behind; up>per parts brownish-grey , barred with the 

 whitish terminal margins of the feathers ; hind part of back 

 deep grey ; lower parts pale greyish-white, irregularly patched 

 with black, and becoming pure ivhite behind. Female similar 

 to the male, but smaller. Young with the upper parts darker, 

 the head and neck of a lighter broivn, the white band on the 

 forehead very narrow, and tinged tvith orange. 



Male in Winter. — This, which is considerably inferior 

 in size to our other species, has, like them, the body large 

 and full, the neck long and slender, the head rather small, 

 oblong, and compressed. 



The bill is shorter than the head, much higher than 

 broad at the base ; the upper mandible with the ridge broad 



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