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BIRD NAMES. 



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

 t< tlif feathers, but, as more often seen, a blotchy mixture of 

 I >lack and white; the feathers of rump, and those beneath tail, 

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

 Mesh 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. 



}'<//"/. Front of head deep brown instead of white. No 

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





No. 6. Young. 



I.rn.irth twenty-seven inches; extent sixty inches. 



Its range, as given in A. O. U. 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 

 < 1 a* / ,,/f.ifron*): LAUGHING GOOSE: HARLEQUIN BRANT: PIED 



