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GEESE. 



40.00; tailfeath- 

 Fig. 172. 



E, c, 1. 1-4. 



c. Short-billed Geese. Branta. 



Bather large geese, dark above, lighter beneath ; head and 

 neck, conspicuously marked with black and white ; bill, short 

 and black ; feet, black. 



1. CANADA GOOSE, B. CANADENSIS. 

 ers, 18 to 20 in number; head 



and neck, black; white patch on 



cheeks usually meeting on 



throat; brownish-gray above, 



lighter below ; upper tail coverts 



and posterior portions below, t 



white, fig. 172. Breeds in north- " 



ern U. S. and British Provinces ; 



migrates south in early Nov. to 



winter from Chesapeake Bay 



south to Fla. and Mexico ; returns north in March. Abundant. 



2. HUTCHINS' GOOSE, B. HUTCIIISSII. Much smaller 

 than 1, 32.00. Breeds in Arctic N. A. ; migrates south in Oct. 

 through western U. S. and Mississippi Yalley to winter from 

 Kansas southward; returns north in March. 



3. CACKLING GOOSE, B. MINIMA. Differs from 2 in 

 being smaller, 24.00; tail feathers, 14 to 16; distinct white 

 collar on lower neck ; nearly or quite as dark below as above. 

 Breeds on the northern Pacific coast; migrates south in win- 

 ter into western U. S. ; rarely east to Wis. 



Fig. 173. 4. BARNACLE GOOSE, B. 



LEUCOPSIS. 26.00; fore part of 

 head, white; space in front of 

 eye, occiput, neck and chest, 

 black ; bluish-'gray above some- 

 what banded with black and 

 white; grayish- white beneath, 

 fig. 173. Northern parts of Old 

 World ; casual in eastern N. A. 

 E, c,4. 1-4. 



