No. 4.] BIRD NAMES. . 9 



gray with their flight-feathers ("primaries" and "secondaries") 

 black or nearly so ; rump light gray or more whitish ; coloration 

 of bill and legs about as in previously described snow geese.* 



Names of the whiter birds, as follows : SNOW GOOSE: WHITE 

 BRANT < latter name very general in the West) : WAVBY or COM- 

 MON WAVEY of 1 1 udson's Bay region. J. W. Long, in his Amer- 

 ica n Wild Fowl Shooting, speaks of their being known in the 

 West somewhere as FISH BRANT (an absurdly inappropriate and 

 libellous designation). 



Colonel J. II. Powel writes me from his home in Newport, 

 II. I. : "I have heard it called MEXICAN QOOSE in this State (I 

 have killed several here)."f Baird, Brewer, and Kidjrway record 

 RED GOOSE as in use on the Jersey coast (a name mentioned also 

 in Wilson, 1814), suggested I suppose by color of bill and legs, 

 and the reddish stains. 



These birds visit the Delaware regularly, many of them 

 congregating near Bay Side. ( umberland Co., N. J., the species 

 being there known as TEXAS GOOSE. 



Names of Cfnn r.irntescens, as follows: BLUE GOOSE: 

 BLUE SNOW GOOSE: BLUE WAVEY: BLUE -WINGED GOOSE: 

 WHITE-HEADED GOOSE or WHITE-HEAD: BALD-HEADED BRANT 

 or BALD BRANT. 



Though snow geese are rare in most of our Eastern States, 

 they are exceedingly common in many parts of the West, col- 

 lectini: in countless numbers on the prairies, or transforming 

 river sandbars into islands of glistening snow. They decoy less 

 readily than the Canadian and Hutchins's geese, and fly much 

 higher while passing to and from their feeding-grounds. 



* Since writing the above, I have lx?come thoroughly convinced that C. 

 eafruletcens is n species by itM-lf. distinct from the other geese herein described. 



+ In Howard us's Field, Cover, and Trap Shooting, edited by Charles J. 

 Foster. \\r rr:id of thi-sr birds, \\ith species Nos. 2 and 5, being known as 

 " Mi-v.r.iii _'' MC " in portions of the West, this terra distinguishing them 

 collectively from the "common wild goose," No. 1. 



