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GEESE. 



c. Short-billed Geese. Branta. 



Rather large geese, dark above, lighter beneath ; head and 

 neck, conspicuously marked with black and white ; bill, short 

 and black ; feet, black. 



1. CANADA GOOSE, B. CANADENSIS. 40.00 ; tail feath- 

 ers, 18 to 20 in number; head Fig. 172. 



and neck, black; white patch on 

 cheeks usually meeting on 

 throat ; brownish-gray above, 

 lighter below; upper tail coverts 

 and posterior portions below, 

 white, fig. 172. Breeds in north- 

 ern U. S. and British Provinces ; 

 migrates south in early Nov. to 

 winter from Chesapeake Bay IV, E, c, 1. 1-4. 



south to Fla. and Mexico ; returns north in March. Abundant. 



2. HUTCHINS' GOOSE, B. hutchinsii. Much smaller 

 than 1, 32.00. Breeds in Arctic N. A. ; migrates south in Oct. 

 through western U. S. and Mississippi Valley to winter from 

 Kansas southward; returns north in March. 



3. CACKLING GOOSE, B. minima. Differs from 2 in 

 being smaller, 24.00; tail feathers, 14 to 16; distinct white 

 collar on lower neck ; nearly or quite as dark below as above. 

 Breeds on the northern Pacific coast; migrates south in win- 

 ter into western U. S. ; rarely east to Wis. 



Fig. 173. 4. BARNACLE GOOSE, B. 



LEI3COPSIS. 26.00; fore part of 

 head, white; space in front of 

 eye, occiput, neck and chest, 

 black ; bluish-gray above some- 

 what banded with black and 

 white; grayish-white beneath, 

 fig. 173. Northern parts of Old 

 World ; casual in eastern N. A. 

 ]V, E, c,4. 1-4. 



