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as well as the general term, brant, which is commonly 

 applied to all the smaller geese. Mr. Elliot says that 

 among the Aleutians this bird is called the tundrina 

 goose. 



The habits of the cackling goose do not appear to 

 differ at all from those of the Canada goose, but its 

 range is a very narrow one, being restricted during the 

 summer to the Bering seacoast of Alaska, its principal 

 breeding place being the shores of Norton Sound. It 

 does not occur during the breeding season anywhere 

 south of the Alaska Peninsula, the breeding birds from 

 Cook's Inlet southward being the white-cheeked goose. 

 During migration it extends along the Pacific coast as 

 far as California, but the birds seen in summer along 

 the inlets of the British Columbia and Alaska coast are 

 not this species, but the white-cheeked goose. It 

 reaches California in its southward migration about the 

 middle of October, and departs again for the North in 

 April. 



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