■^jg SMALLER WHITE-CHEEKED GOOSE. 



DIMENSIONS. 



Length, 25,00 to 30.00 ; stretch, 50.00 to 51.50. Wing, 14.o0 to 15.75 ; tail, 4.75 to 5..-.0 : bill, 1.30 to 

 1.45. 



NESTS AND EGGS. 



Nests, placed on the ground. Eg(5S, five or six in number, ovate in form, dull white in color. 

 Dimensions, 3,11 by 3.19 to 2.12 by 2.18. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



Known by the small size and sixteen tail feathers, but closely allied to the Canada Goose and specimens 

 are of rather frequent occurrence that are difficult to determine. 



HABITS. 

 I have on sevural occasions found geese in the Boston niarl<ets, Avlncli had been 

 killed on the Atlantic Coast, and which from their small size and le.ss numl)er of tail 

 feathers ^vonld appear to be Hutchins' Geese. Whether these exami)les merely repre- 

 sent the extremes of individual variation of the Canada Goose and that they are offsprings 

 of that species, or that the}- are stragglers from the West and offsprings of similar 

 parents, is difficult to state. Tlie home of the true form of Hutchins' Goose is ^s'estof the 

 Mississippi River. 



BERIMICLA LEUCOPARIA. 



Smaller White-Cheeked Gocse. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Sp. Cii. Size, small, tail of sixteen feathers. Resembles Hutchins' Goose but. darker in color, with 

 the line of demarkation between the white of the lower parts and the dark above being more sharply defined, 

 and there is a half collar of white on the front of the neck (in addition to the white of the tln'oat) not far 

 from the body. Length, 24.00 or less, wing, about 15.00. 



HABITS. 



In the Autumn of 1867 I procured a specimen of a small Goose in the Quiucy H;di 

 Market, Boston, that had a half collar on the lower neck and wliich had a, less number of 

 tail feathers than the Canada Goose. This bird was freshly killed and w; s presmnably 

 taken in the vicinity of Boston. The specimen was made into a skin and is iio ddubt in 

 the collection of some one of the many ornithlogists who were in the habit of purchasing 

 skms of me at that time. The species, or sub-species, as it is generally regarded, occur.s 

 in the Pacific coast, thus my specimen must have been a decided straggler. 



DEIMDROCYGNA FULVA. 

 Fulvus Tree Djck, 



Fig. 28. Head of female, adult. 

 DESCRIPTION. 



Si'. Cii. Form, slender. Size, medium. Bill, alwut as long as head. Legs long : the tibac being naked 

 for about 1.00. Toes, cousldorablv longer than the tarsus. 



