No. 5.] 



BIRD NAMES. 



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mage, blackish brown broken only by a few pale or white edgings 

 to the feathers, but, as more often seen, a blotchy mixture of 

 black and Avhite ; the feathers of rump, and those beneath tail, 

 pure white. Color of bill varying with different specimens, from 

 flesh color and yellowish, to darker and more reddish tint ; the 

 nail at end white or nearly so. Legs and feet orange, the webs 

 lighter, and claws white. 



Young. Front of head deep brown instead of white. No 

 black on breast. Bill dull in tone, with nail at end blackish. 



No. 5. Young. 



Length twenty-seven inches ; extent sixty inches. 



Its range, as given in A. O. TJ. Check List, is " North Amer- 

 ica, breeding far northward; in winter south to Mexico and 

 Cuba." 



Though a familiar species to a majority of Western gunners, 

 it is one which we in the East know but very little about. 



WHITE -FRONTED GOOSE, or AMERICAN WHITE -FRONTED 

 GOOSE (the latter distinguishing it from European variety 

 Anser alUfrons): LAUGHING GOOSE: HARLEQUIN BRANT: PIED 



