86 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Branta canadensis (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. North America, from Arctic coast south to southern bor- 

 der of the United States, breeding (at least formerly) to middle 

 districts of eastern United States. 



a. Branta canadensis canadensis (LINNAEUS). Canada Goose. [172.] 

 Anas canadensis LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 123. (Canada.) 



RANGE. North America. Breeds from limit of trees in valley of the lower 

 Yukon, northwestern Mackenzie, and central Keewatin south to southern 

 Oregon, northern Colorado. Nebraska, and Indiana; formerly bred casually 

 south to New Mexico, Kansas, Tennessee, and Massachusetts; winters from 

 southern British Columbia, southern Colorado, southern Wisconsin, southern 

 Illinois, and New Jersey (rarely southern Ontario and Newfoundland) 

 south to southern California, Texas, and Florida; accidental in Bermuda 

 and Jamaica. 



b. Branta canadensis hutchinsi (RICHAKDSON). Hutchins's Goose. [172a.] 



Anser hutchinsii RICHARDSON, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 470. 

 (Melville Peninsula.) 



RANGE. Western North America. Breeds from Kowak Valley, Alaska, 

 and from mouth of Mackenzie east along Arctic shores and islands from lati- 

 tude 70 south to Melville Peninsula and northwestern Hudson Bay; winters 

 from British Columbia, Nevada, Colorado, and Missouri south to San Rafael 

 in Lower California, Texas, and Louisiana; accidental in Vera Cruz; in 

 migration rare east of the Mississippi Valley but recorded on the Atlantic 

 coast from Maine to Virginia. 



c. Branta canadensis occidentals (BAIRD). White-cheeked Goose. [1726.] 



Bernicla occidentalis BAIRD, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, 

 766. (Port Townsend, Washington.) 



RANGE. Pacific coast of North America. Breeds from Prince William 

 Sound and Mitkof Island south to northeastern California; winters from 

 Washington to southern California. 



<1. Branta canadensis minima RIDGWAY. Cackling Goose. [172c.] 



Branta minima RIDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, May 6, 1885, 22. 

 (St. Michael, Alaska.) 



RANGE. Western North America. Breeds in western Aleutians and from 

 Norton Sound south to northern coast of Alaska Peninsula; winters from 

 British Columbia south to San Diego County, California; casual east to 

 Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. 



