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CHAPTER XXVIII. 
‘WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, 
(Anser Albifrons : called “ Brant” in the West.) 
HEAD and neck, grayish brown; at the base of the 
upper mandible a white band. Adult with bill carmine- 
red; with the ungins white; head and neck grayish 
brown ; a white band margined behind with blackish 
brown on the anterior part of the forehead, along the 
bill: general color of the back, deep-gray, the feathers 
of its fore part, broadly tipped with grayish brown, 
the rest with grayish white. Hind part of back, deep- 
gray ; wings grayish brown, toward the edge ash-gray, 
as are the primary coverts, and outer webs of the prim- 
aries; rest of the primaries and secondaries grayish 
black,—the latter, with a narrow edge of grayish white, 
the former, edged and tipped with white. Breast, ab- 
domen, lower tail coverts, sides, rump and upper tail 
coverts, white; the breast and sides, patched with 
brownish-black, on the latter intermixed with grayish- 
brown feathers. Tail, rounded: feet, orange; claws, 
white. Length, twenty-seven and one half inches: 
wing fourteen and one half inches. 
The white-fronted geese, at a not remote period were 
very plenty throughout the West.. Their numbers have 
steadily decreased, going regularly and surely before 
