84 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



RANGE. Eastern North America. Has been found breeding at Whale 

 Sound, north Greenland, and Ellesmere Land; full breeding range not known; 

 winters from southern Illinois, Chesapeake Bay, and Massachusetts (rarely) 

 south to Louisiana, Florida, and West Indies to Porto Rico; in migration 

 rarely west to Colorado and east to New England and Newfoundland. 



Chen cserulescens (LINNAEUS). Blue Goose. [169.1.] 



Anas ccerulescens LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 124. (Hudson 

 Bay.) 



RANGE. Eastern North America. Breeding range unknown, 

 but probably interior of northern Ungava; winters from Nebraska 

 and southern Illinois south to coasts of Texas and Louisiana; rare 

 or casual in migration in California, and from New Hampshire to 

 Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas. 



SUBGENUS EXANTHEMOPS ELLIOT. 



Exanthemops ELLIOT, New & Unrig. Birds N. A., II, Pt. ix, 1868, pi. 

 xliv and text. Type, by orig. desig., Anser rossii CASSIN. 



Chen rossi (CASSIN). Ross's Goose. [170.] 



Anser rossii CASSIN, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 73. (Great 

 Slave Lake.) 



RANGE. Western North America. Breeding range unknown, but 

 probably north of Mackenzie; winters in California; in migration 

 occurs from Kent Peninsula and Anderson River, Mackenzie, south to 

 Manitoba and Oregon; accidental in British Columbia, Colorado, 

 Louisiana, and Chihuahua. 



GENUS ANSER BRISSON. 



Anser BRISSON, Orn., VI, 1760, 261. Type, by tautonymy, Anser syl- 

 vestris BRISSON = Anas anser LINNAEUS. 



Anser albifrons (SCOPOLI). 



RANGE. Arctic and subarctic parts of the Northern Hemisphere, 

 migrating south in winter to the warmer temperate latitudes. 



