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AMERICAN WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 



LAUGHING GOOSE. 

 Anser ALBIFRONS GAMBELI. 



Char. Upper parts brownish ash, the feathers paler on the edges ; 

 forehead and rump white; wings and tail dusky; under parts brownish 

 gray, blotched with black ; bill yellow, with white nail ; legs and feet 

 orange. Length about 30 inches. 



M'st. Amid rank grass and made of coarse herbage and lined with grass 

 and feathers, — sometimes a mere depression at the summit of a grassy 

 mound or in the sand on the bank of a river, lined with feathers and down. 

 Es:^gs. 5-7; "dull greenish yellow" (?) ; 3.15 X 2.05. 



The White-fronted Goose breeds chiefly in the interior of the 

 continent on the skirts of the forest portions of sub-arctic regions, 

 and winters in Mexico and the West Indies. During the migra- 

 tions this Goose is rare along the Atlantic coast, but plentiful on 

 the plains, and quite common about the Great Lakes.- 



Numbers of this species nest in Greenland, but they are said to 

 be of the European race, — true albifrons, — and they probably 

 migrate southward by the way of Iceland and the British Isles. 



The name of Laughing Goose is derived from the call, which is 

 loud and trumpet-like. It sounds something like wah, wah, wah, 

 wah, repeated rapidly. 



