CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. Ill 



690. Cygnus musicus Bechst. b — . c — . R 586. (g.!e.) 



Whooping S^van. 



691. Cygnus bewicki Yarr. b — . c — . R 587. (!e.) 



Bewick's Swan. 



692. Anser albifrons (Gm.) Bechst. b — . c — . R 593. (g.) 



European White-fronted Goose. 



693. Anser albifrons gambeli (Hurtl.) Coues. B 565, 566. c 478. R 593a. 



American White-fronted Goose. 



694. Chen coerulescens (L.) Ridg. b 564. c 479. R 590. 



Blue Goose. 



,695. Chen hyperboreus (Pall.) Boie. b 563. c 480. R 591. 



Snow^ Goose. 



696. Chen hyperboreus albatus (Cass.) Ridg. b — . c 480a. R 59ia. 



Lesser Snow^ Goose. 



697. Chen rossi (Bd.) Ridg. b — . c 48i. r 592. 



Ross' Snow^ Goose. 



690. C. mu'-sl-cus. Gr. fiovcriKSs, Lat. musicus, relating to a muse, any one of the Muses ; 



hence, " music " is primarily and most properly to be predicated of high ideals in gen- 

 eral, whether in science, letters, or art. The term musicus, however, as applied to a 

 swan, is a lucm a iion lucendo, unless a relationship between the Muses and the Graces 

 be imagined. 



Not in the orig. ed., and here admitted with doubt. Greenland only, as straggler 

 from Europe. See Reinh., Ibis, 1861, p. 13, and Freke, Zoologist, September, 1881, 

 p. 372. See next species. 



691. C. be'-wTck-i. To Thomas Bewick. 



Not in the orig. ed., and here doubtfully admitted. See Pr. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 

 p. 222, where Ridgway revives the record given in Fn. Bor.-Am. ii, 1831, p. 465, and 

 states that the description of specimens killed at Igloolik, Arctic America, lat. 66°, 

 indicates the true Bewick's Swan. But on the doubt in the case of these Arctic Swans, 

 if any different from C. cohtmbianus, see Newton, Man. Nat. Hist. Greenl., 1875, p. 113, 

 and especially Freke, Zoologist, September, 1881, p. 366. 



692. An'ser al'-bi-frons. Lat. anser, a goose. How anser came about we do not know; we sup- 

 pose it related more or less radically to anas, and so to vaa-cra, a duck ; see H ydranassa, 

 No. 660. — Lat. albifrons, white forehead. 



Not in the orig. ed., and here admitted with doubt, the identification of the Green- 

 land white-fronted geese being questionable, cf. Reinh., Ibis, iii, 1861, p. 12; Newt., 

 Man. Nat. Hist. Greenl., 1875, p. 113, and Freke, Zoologist, September, 1881, p. — . 



693. A. a. gam'-bgl-li. To William Gambel. 



694. Chen [pronounced cane] coe-riil-es'-cens. Gr. x''?". ^ goose. — See Dendroeca, No. 117. 



695. C. hy-per-b6r'-6-us. Lat. %/Jer6ore((s, hyperborean, northern ; see Zo6jpes, No. 603. 



696. C. h. al-ba'-tus. Lat. albatus, whitened, made white. 



697. C. r6s'-sl. To Bernard R. Ross, Chief Factor, H. B. Co. 



