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ANSERIN^E - THE GEESE — PIIILACTE. 



477 



frontal feathers. The feet are also Romewhat peculiar, the tarsus being proportionnlly shorter, and 

 the toes longer, than in other {,'eiieia. From the South Aniericau genus Cldwphaija, with which 

 it has been a'^sociated, it is as far removed structurally as geographically. 



The only known species is tlie beaiitil'iil Painted, or Emperor Goose of Alaska, said to have 

 been found also on the Caspian Sea. 



Philacte canagica. 



Philacte canagica. 



THE EUPEBOB QOOSE. 



Anas canagica, Sevast. N. Act. Petrop. XIII. 1800, 346, pi. x. 



Anscr eanarjkus, BiiASDT, Bull. Acad. St. PctiTsb. 1. 1830, 37. — SciiMic. Mus. P.-B. Anscrcs, 1865, 



113. 

 Bcrnkla canagica, Ghay, Genciu B. III. 1843, 607. 

 Chlaiphnga canagica, Boxap. Conipt. Rend. XLIII. 1856, 648. — Baiud, B. N. Am. IS.'iS, 768 ; Cat. 



N. Am. B. 1859, no. 573. — Elliot, Illiistr. Am. B. III. 1860, pi. 45. — C'oi:ks, Check Li.st, 2d 



ed. 1882, no. 698. 

 Philacte canagica, Baxmst. IV. Ac. Xat. Sci. Pliilad. 1870, 131. — CouES, Key, 1872, 283; Check 



List, 1873, no. 482 ; B. X. W. 1874, 558. — Kidgw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1882, no. 598. 

 Anscv pictiis, Pai.l. Zoog. Kosso-As. II. 1826, 233. 



Had. Coast and islands o( Alaska ; Caspian Sea (?). 



Sp. Char. Adult : Head and nape white, tlie former frequently stained, especially anteriorly, 

 with orange-rufous ; throat, and neck frontally and laterally, brownish black, or dusky grayish 

 brown. Tail slaty on basal, and white on terminal, half. Prevailing color of rest of jjlumage bluish 

 ash, with a glaucous cast, each feather handsomely variegateil by a narrow terminal bar of white 

 and a broader subterminal crescent-shaped one of black ; these markings very shaqily defined on 

 the upper surface, breast, and sides, but nearly obsolete on the abdomen and crissum. Greater 

 coverts and secondaries slate-black, conspicuously margined with white ; anterior lesser coverts, 

 primaries, and primary coverts jdain slaty gray. "Lower mandible dark horn-color, with a white 

 spot on each side of branching rami ; membrane about nares livid blue ; rest of upper mandible 

 pale purplish, with a fleshy white wash ; edge of nail dark horn-color, rest of the nail horn-white ; 

 iris hazel ; legs and feet bright rich orange-yellow" (E. W. Nelson, MS.). Young: Nearly simi- 



