THE CANADA GOOSE. 825 
not only recorded? the presence of seventeen species of ducks and geese, but 
secured excellent photographs at close range of four species of the latter, 
including the American White-fronted Goose. Mr. Fisher was astonished at 
such a lack of suspicion on the part of the wildest species, but careful investi- 
gation convinced him that these were genuine recruits from the wilderness, 
and they left in the spring without evidence of having been spoiled by hospi- 
tality. There’s a policy which beats carnage! and it guarantees good sport 
too—fun for everybody, including the goose. 
No. 333. 
CANADA GOOSE. 
A. O. U. No. 172. Branta canadensis (Linn.). 
Synonyms.—‘Wiip Goosr.” Common Wrip Goosrk. HonKer. 
Description.—Adult: Head and neck glossy black; a large white triangular 
patch on either cheek, the two usually confluent on throat—occasionally an indis- 
tinct white collar at base of black; back and wings rich grayish brown; fore-breast 
and below lighter grayish brown, tipped with pale fulvous or grayish white; 
heavier toned on sides, where presenting a shingled appearance and shading into 
color of back; lower belly, under tail-coverts, longer upper tail-coverts and flanks 
well up on rump, pure white; rump and tail black; primaries blackening at tips; 
bill black; feet dusky. ‘Tail 18-20-feathered. Jimmature: Similar, but white of 
cheeks and throat more or less mixed with blackish. Length 35.00-42.00 (889- 
1066.8) ; wing 20.00 (508) ; tail 7.00 (177.8) ; bill 2.30 (58.4) ; tarsus 3.55 (90.2). 
Recognition Marks.—Eagle size; black head and neck with white cheek- 
patches connected across throat, and large size distinctive. 
Nesting.—Nest: on the ground, on a cliff, or in a tree (a deserted Osprey’s 
nest and the like), lined with down. Eggs: 4-6, light greenish buff, or buffy 
white. Av. size, 3.52 x 2.30 (89.4 x 58.4). Season: April; one brood. 
General Range.—Temperate North America, breeding in the northern 
United States and British Provinces; south in winter to Mexico. 
Range in Washington.—Common migrant and winter resident east of the 
Cascades ; locally abundant in winter in the Big Bend, Palouse, and Horse Heaven 
countries, and upon certain island refuges of the Columbia; also sparingly resi- 
dent and breeding; occasionally taken on Puget Sound during migrations and in 
winter. 
Authorities.——[Lewis and Clark, Hist. Ex. (1814) Ed. Biddle: Coues. 
Vol. Il. p. 192.] Bernicla canadensis, Boie, Baird, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv. IX. 
IaSo}, (Ops You Ge Hos, “Ms (ClsaSe IES Ila, IDE, JI, 18, 
Specimens.—Prov. F;,? 
a. Bird-Lore, Vol. VIII., Nov. 1906, p. 192 ff. 
