NAMES AND PORTRAITS OF BIRDS. 



No. 1. 

 Branta canadensis. 



Head, neck, bill, and legs, black; patch about throat, and 

 feathers above and below tail, white. Upper parts of plumage 

 principally brown, this fading into light gray beneath ; brown 

 of rump and tail darker, or blackish. 



Length a little over three feet ; extent, five feet or more. 



Range, as given in A. O. U, Check List : " Temperate Worth 

 America, breeding in the northern United States and British 

 Provinces ; south in winter to Mexico." 



CANADA GOOSE: COMMON WILD GOOSE: BIG GRAY GOOSE: 

 COMMON GRAY GOOSE— Early writers (Ilutchins and Ilearne) 

 using the latter name for this fowl, but giving that of " Canada 

 Goose " to No. 2, a very similar but smaller bird. 



Eeferred to not infrequently as HONKER or OLD HONKER 

 in recognition of its hoarse notes, or "honking." At More- 

 head, North Carohna, REEF GOOSE (No. 2 being known there 

 as Marsh Goose) ; and Dresser writes in Birds of Southern 

 Texas, 1865-66 : " The shore gunners are well aware of the 

 difference between this [No. 1] and B. hutcMnsii [No. 2], calling 

 the former the BAY GOOSE, and the latter the Prairie Goose." 



Early authors tell of its being known at Hudson's Bay as 

 BUSTARD,* and Sir John Richardson, in Fauna Boreali-Ameri- 



* The bustard of ornitliologists belongs to the ostrich family, the Great 

 Bustard {Otis tarda) being the largest land bird of Europe. 



