252 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 



Sub-family ANSERINE. 

 Genus Ansek, Linn. 



140. Anser hyperhoreus^ Pall. Suow Goose. 



Anser hyperhoreus, Pall., Vieil., Steph., Bp., Sw. «fc Rich., Natt., Aud., Temm., 



Gir., Schl., Gray, and most late authors. 

 Anas hyperlorcus, Gm., Lath., Wils., Rich., Temm. 

 Chen hyperioreus, Boie, Bp., Gosse, Bias., Gundl., Degl. & Gerbe. 

 Chionochen hyperhorea, Reich. 

 Anas nivalis, Foret. 

 Anser niveiis, Briss., Brehm. 

 Tadorna nivea, Brehm. 



Length, about 30 ; wing, 16.40. 



Hab. — Whole of North America; breeds in higher latitudes, wintering 

 in United States ; abundant in the interior and along Pacific coast, rare 

 on the Atlantic; Greenland, transient. Cuba. Eare or casual in Europe. 

 (Coues.) 



Colonel Wedderburn's notes contain the following: "On the 19th 

 October, 1848, Mr. Hodgson Smith shot two of these birds, in their 

 young plumage, at Riddle's Bay; but, unfortunately for the ends of 

 science, they furnished the dinner-table instead of the cabinet." Mr. 

 Hurdis adds: "A wing pertaining to one of the specimens mentioned 

 by Major Wedderburn was fortunately saved by Mr. Smith, which re- 

 moved all doubts as to the species it belonged to. In October, 1849, two 

 ^ White Geese' were observed in Mangrove Bay, and on the 9th Novem- 

 ber, 1851, four dark grey-coloured Geese were seen on the wing near 

 Peniston's Pond. These were doubtless A. hyperboreus." I may here 

 remark that the Blue Goose, A. ccerulescensj much resembles the young 

 of A. hyperboreus, and that consequently the birds seen may possibly 

 have belonged to the former species. 



Genus Bernicla, Steph. 



141. Bernicla canadensis^ (Linn.) Boie. Canada Goose. 



Anas canadensis, Linn., Gra., Forst., Lath., Wils., aud all earlier authors. 

 Anser canadensis, Vieil., Flem., Keys &Blas., Bp., Sw. & Rich., Nutt., Aud., 



Eyt., De Kay, Gosse, Gir., Bd., Maxim., Schl. 

 Cygnus canadensis, Steph., Eyt., Jen. 

 Bernicla canadensis, Boie, Gray, Bp., Coop. & Suck., Coues, Verr.,Reinh., Dress., 



Dall & Bann., aud most late authors. 

 Jiranta canadensis, Gray, Bauu., Coues. 

 Bernicla {Leucoblcpharon) canadensis, Bd. 

 Branta {LeucohUpliaron) canadensis. Gray. 

 Anser parvipes, Cass. 



Length, 35; wing, 18; tarsus, 3.10. 



Hab. — The whole of North America; breeding in United States, as 



well as further north; accidental in Europe. (Coues.) 



