120 THE BIRDS OF MAINE 



b*. Bill over 2.40; wing over 17.10. Greater Snow Goose 

 (Immature). 

 B. Bill black. 



1. Throat black. Brant. 



2. Throat white. 



a'. Length from tip of bill to tip of tail over 34.00; wing usually 

 more than 16.00 ; culmen usually more than 1.75 ; tail feathers 

 usually 18 to 20 in number. Canada Goose. 



a*. Length from tip of bill to tip of tail under 34.00 ; wing usually 

 less than 16.00; culmen usually less than 1.75; tail feathers 

 usually 14 to 16 in number ; Hutchin's Goose. 



Genus CHEN Boie 



169. Chen hyperhorea (Pall.). Lesser Snow Goose; Baily 

 Goose. 



Plumage of adults : primaries black, their bases and coverts ashy ; plumage 

 elsewhere white. Immature plumage: head, neck and upper parts pale 

 grayish ; feathers of the back often with whitish edges ; the wing coverts 

 and tertials streaked towards the middle with darker ; rump, tail coverts, tail 

 and under parts white ; wing coverts widely white-margined. Wing 14.00 to 

 17.00 ; culmen 2.00 to 2.30; tarsus 2.90 to 3.30. 



Geog. Dist. — Western North America, east to the Mississippi Valley and 

 more casually to New England ; south in winter to southern Illinois and 

 southern California ; breeds only in high latitudes. 



County Records. — Cumberland ; taken in December, 1880, (Brown, C. B. P. 

 p. 30). Hancock; very rare, one taken at Toddy Pond, October 4, 1893, 

 which I sold to Mr. Brewster, (Dorr). Kennebec; taken at Hallowell on 

 November 25, 1881, (Smith, F. & S. 20, p. 125). Oxford; a specimen was 

 taken at Lake Umbagog, Maine, October 2, 1906, by Chas. Douglas, (Brew- 

 ster, Auk, 1897, p. 207). Penobscot; have one shot at Pushaw and saw one 

 shot at Nicatous, (Hardy). Sagadahoc ; one was shot about three miles from 

 Richmond, October 10, 1897, by James Robinson, and a companion which the 

 bird had was shot later by Capt. Scofield ; one of these birds is now in the 

 Bowdoin College collection, (C. B. Day). 



This species occasionally straggles into the State in the fall 



between early October and December. They are said to nest 



along the Lov/er Anderson River and in neighboring regions 



along the Arctic coast. The egg is described as uniform dirty 



chalky white and measuring 3.40x2.20 (B. B. & R.). The 



nesting and feeding habits are likely to be similar to those of 



other related species. 



