ORDER ANSERES. 85 
a. [Anser albifrons albifrons (Scopo.i). European White-fronted Goose. 
[171.] 
Branta albifrons Scopoui, Annus IJ, Hist.-Nat., 1769, 69. 
Ranee.— Northern parts of Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds in Iceland, 
Nova Zembla, northern Europe, and northern Asia, passing south in 
winter to Egypt, India, and China. Of doubtful record from eastern Green- 
land.] 
6. Anser albifrons gimbeli Harrtaus. White-fronted Goose. [171a.] 
Anser gambelli Hartuaus, Revue et Mag. Zool., 1852, 7. (Southern 
part of North America.) 
RaNGE.— Central and western North America. Breeds on and near the 
Arctie coast from northeastern Siberia east to northeastern Mackenzie and 
south to lower Yukon Valley; winters commonly from southern British 
Columbia to southern Lower California and Jalisco, and rarely from southern 
Illinois, southern Ohio, and New Jersey south to northeastern Mexico, 
southern Texas, and Cuba, and on the Asiatie coast to China and Japan; 
rare in migration on the Atlantic coast north to Ungava. 
[Anser fabalis (LATHAM). Bean Goose. [171.1.] 
Anas fabalis LatHaM, Suppl. Gen. Synopsis, I, 1787, 297. (England?) 
Rance.— Northern parts of the Old World. Breeds in northern 
Europe and northern Asia from Russian Lapland east to the Yenisei 
River, and north to Nova Zembla; winters south to southern Europe, 
northern Africa, and China; recorded from northern Greenland. ] 
[Anser brachyrhynchus Barton. Pink-footed Goose. [171.2.] 
Anser brachyrhynchus Baitton, Mém. Soe. Roy. d’Emul. d’Abbeville, 
1838, 74. (Abbeville, France.) 
RancE.— Europe. Breeds on Spitzbergen; winters south to north- 
western Europe, occasionally to Germany and France; accidental on 
east coast of Greenland. ] 
GENUS BRANTA Scopot.t. 
Branta Scorout, Annus I, Hist.-Nat., 1769, 67. Type, by subs. desig., 
Anas bernicla Linnus (Bannister, 1870). 
