86 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Branta canadénsis (LINN Us). 
RanGE.— North America, from Arctic coast south to southern bor- 
der of the United States, breeding (at least formerly) to middle 
districts of eastern United States. 
a. Branta canadensis canadensis (LINN=us). Canada Goose. [172.] 
Anas canadensis LiInNmUuS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 123. (Canada.) 
RanGE.— North America. Breeds from limit of trees in valley of the lower 
Yukon, northwestern Mackenzie, and central Keewatin south to southern 
Oregon, northern Colorado, Nebraska, and Indiana; formerly bred casually 
south to New Mexico, Kansas, Tennessee, and Massachusetts; winters from 
southern British Columbia, southern Colorado, southern Wisconsin, southern 
Illinois, and New Jersey (rarely southern Ontario and Newfoundland) 
south to southern California, Texas, and Florida; accidental in Bermuda 
and Jamaica. 
b. Branta canadensis hitchinsi (RicHaRDsON). Hutchins’s Goose. [172a_] 
Anser hutchinsii RicHarDsON, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 470. 
(Melville Peninsula.) 
Rance.— Western North America. Breeds from Kowak Valley, Alaska, 
and from mouth of Mackenzie east along Arctic shores and islands from lati- 
tude 70° south to Melville Peninsula and northwestern Hudson Bay; winters 
from British Columbia, Nevada, Colorado, and Missouri south to San Rafael 
in Lower California, Texas, and Louisiana; accidental in Vera Cruz; in 
migration rare east of the Mississippi Valley but recorded on the Atlantic 
coast from Maine to Virginia. 
c. Branta canadensis occidentalis (BairD). White-cheeked Goose. [172b.] 
Bernicla occidentalis Batrp, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., LX, 1858, 
766. (Port Townsend, Washington.) 
Rance.— Pacific coast of North America. Breeds from Prince William 
Sound and Mitkof Island south to northeastern California; winters from 
Washington to southern California. 
d. Branta canadensis minima Ripaway. Cackling Goose. [172c.] 
Branta minima Ripeway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, May 6, 1885, 22. 
' + (St. Michael, Alaska.) 
RancE.— Western North America. Breeds in western Aleutians and from 
Norton Sound south to northern coast of Alaska Peninsula; winters from 
British Columbia south to San Diego County, California; casual east to 
Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. 
