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LAUGHING GOOSE. 
Cinereous goose; with a white patch surrounding the base of 
- the bill. 
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Head, neck, chest, breast, and belly grey brown, the latter marked — 
with irregular patches and bars of black; back brown, with each 
feather margined with lighter; quills dark hoary brown; vent, 
abodmen, and upper tail coverts white; tail grey brown, tipped with 
white; the two outer tail feathers entirely white; a white patch on 
each side the base of the bill. 
Anser Eirythropus  ...ccceee0e Flem. Brit. An. 127. 
PIS iiee ides varices graunven <u gcaes Linn. Syst. 1. 197. 
PANEL -QIOULFORS \< accevsntensas se Steph. Sh. Zool. 12. 25. 
Laughing Goose .............. Hdw. Gle. pl. 158. 
White-fronted Goose ......4.. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 575. 
Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 476. 
Lath. Syn. 6. 463. 
DOO VUUBE Crevndicsaniane conan Buff. Ois. 9. 81. 
A regular winter resident in the British Islands, and is found in 
the northern portion of the continents of Europe, Asia, and America. 
Specimens ave in our collection, received from the Himalayan range — 
and from within the arctic circle. Dr. Richardson, in the ‘‘ Fauna 
Boreali Americana,” informs us that its breeding places are in the 
woody districts skirting the Mackenzie, to the north of 67 parallel. 
ANSER SEGETUM. 
Ans.—Cinereus ; rostro nigro, fascia flava ad apicem. 
BEAN GOOSE. 
Cinereous goose; the bill black, with a yellow fascia towards the 
tip. 
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