A NA TID.E — A NSERIN^E : GEESE. 



905 



Alaska (to Sitka), S. in winter to California. The bird here inJicated is Bernicla occidentalis Bd. 

 B. N. A. 1858, p. 766, in text under the unfortunate heading of B. leucopareia Cass., whence 

 ])y error my Branta canadensis leucoparia of the Key, orig. ed. 1872, p. 284. But it is not B. 

 leucopareia of Cassin, nor yet Anser lencopareius of Brandt. It is Bernicla canadensis occi- 

 dentalis of the Key, 2d-4th eds., 1884-90, p. 688, and Branta canadensis occidentalis of the 



A. 0. U. List, No. 172 6. 



B. c. hut'chinsi. (To Mr. Hutchins of the H. B. Co.) HuTCHiNS's GoosE. Lesser Can- 

 ada Goose. Small Gray Goose. Little ^YILD Goose. Winter Goose. Flight 

 Goose. Prairie Goose. Marsh Goose. Mud Goose. Eskimo Goose. Apistiskeesh 

 or PiSKASiSH. Tail normally 16-feathered. Coloration exactly as in the Canada Goose. 

 Size much less. Length 25.00-30.00; extent about 4 feet; wing 15.00-17.00; tail 5.00- 

 6.00; bill 1.50; tarsus under 3.00. These are fair measurements of average individuals; 

 some run up to length 34.00; wing 17.75; bill 1.90; tarsus 3.20; and such can hardly if at 

 all be distinguished from small canadensis proper, especially if they happen to have 18 tail- 

 feathers. Other indi- 

 viduals run down to 

 wing 14.75; bill 1.20; 

 tarsus 2.25 ; and such 

 probably cannot be 

 distinguished from 

 minima, especially 

 from an individual o 

 tlie latter which hap- 

 pens to have 1(5 tail- 

 feathers, unless by tlx' 

 color-marks which or- 

 <1 i n aril y distinguisli 

 both minima and occi- 

 dentalis from both 

 hntchinsi and cana- 

 densis proper. There 

 is in fact some ques- 

 tion whether Dr. Rich- 

 ard s o n ' s original 

 htitchinsii, ty])e from 

 Melville peninsula, 

 was not wliat we are 



now calling minima; i.iv-- 



,• .. . { -1 „ 1 ,„ Fig 033. — Canada Goose. (From Lewis. ) 



tnr It IS described as 



length 25.00; wing 14.00! tail 14-feathered ; ''breast . . . all white," etc.; but it might 

 make cdiifusion worse confounded to insist upon the point now. llutdiins's Goose, as we 

 understand the subspecies, ranges over North America at large, U. S. in winter and migration, 

 less commonly along the Atlantic coast tiian in the interior and <m tlie I'acitic coast; breeds 

 in high latitudes ; and occurs on the Asiatic side, Siberia to Japan. This appears to be 

 Brandt's Anser leiicopareius as described from the Ah'utians (but it is B. lexcoparein neither 

 (if Cassin, nor i.f li.-\iRD. nor of Coi'ES, 1872). It is Branta canadensis hntchinsii of the Key, 

 1st ed. 1872, p. 284. wliere first n>(luced to its ))roper rank of subsjuries : .\. O. 1'. No. 172 'f. 

 lirrnicla r. Jixtchinsi of later eds. of tlie Key. See next article. 



IJ <•. iiiiiriiiia. (Lat. smallest, least, used as superlative degree of the different word parrus, 

 .small.) Lk.\si' Can.\I).\ (Joosk. Cackling Goosi-.. C.xssin'.s Godsk. Tail normally 



