CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



690. Cygnus musicus Bechst. b— . c— . R686. (o.!e.) 



Whooping Swan. 



691. Cygnus bewicki Yarr. b— . c— . rcst. (!e.) 



Bewick's Swan. 



692. Anser albifrons (Gm.) Bechst. b — . c — . r 593. (g.) 



European White-fronted Goose. 



693. Anser albifrons gambeli (Ilurtl.) Coues. b 665, sec. c 478. r 593a. 



American White-fronted Goose. 



694. Chen coerulescens (L.) Ridg. b 6G4. c 479. r 590. 



Blue Goose. 



695. Chen hyperboreus (Pall.) Bole, b bos. c 480. r 591. 



Snow Goose. 



696. Chen hyperboreus albatus (Cass.) Ridg. b -. c 480a. r 591«. 



Lesser Snow Goose. 



697. Chen rossi (Bd.) Ridg. b -. c 48i. r 592. 



Ross' Snow Goose. 



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690. C. mu-sI-ciSs. Gr. ;.o„^,^rf,, Lat. musicus, relating to a muso. anv one of the Muses- 

 lienco, music is primarily and most properly fo be predicated of high ideals in gen- 

 eral, whether .n scence, letters, or art. The term musics, however, as applied to a 

 rjimain^r"* " """ '"'""'"' ""'*''' " ""'^'"''""''"P '^'^'^^'^•'-'" t'"-' I^I"«''s and the Graces 



frnnf "r '" ^'''^ "^l'^" 'l''" """^ '""'*' "''"''"'^'' ^'^"^ ''"'"^t- Greenland only, as straggler 

 from Kurope. See Heinh., Ibis, 1801, p. 13, and Freke, Zoologist, Sepien.ber, Tmi, 

 p. -m, hee next species. ' 



691. C. be'-wlck-i. To Thomas Bewick. 



p. ..-,«] ee H dgway revives the record given in Fn. Bor.-Am. ii, 1831, p. 405 and 

 states tha the description of specimens killed at Igloolik, Arctic America lat Go' 

 ndicates the true Hewh.k's Swan. But on the doubt in the case of these ArTt'ic Swans' 

 If any different from C. coUuMan.s, see Newton, Man. Nat. Hist. Greenl. 1875 p n.5' 

 and especially Freke, Zo-llogist, September. 1881, p. 366. ^" ' 



692. 



693. 

 694. 

 695. 

 696. 



Nroio r '^ Ty '"■ '^T. '•■''"-">' '» «""■'' -'-' - to ....«, a duck ; see Il,lr.ual, 

 jNo. 000. — Lat. iilhijions, white forehead. 



land^'white'Iromeil" "'" "",' """' """■""' "'''' ^'°""^' *''^ ''''^""fi-tio" of the Green- 

 lana w hite-fronted geese being questionable, cf. Heinh., Ibis, iii, 1801 p l^. Xewt 



Man. Nat. Ilist. Greenl.. IHTa, p. 11;], and Freke. Zoologist, Seplember, im, p _ ' 

 A. a. gam'-bel-li. To William Gambol. 



Chen [pronounced cane] coe-rfil-es'-cens. Gr. x^i., a goose. - See Dendraca, No. 117. 

 C. hy-per-bar'-g-Qs. Lat. hyperboreus, hyperborean, northern ; see Lolipes, No. 603. 

 C. h. al-ba'-tOs. Lat. allxiUis, whitened, made white. 



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697. C. r8s'.si. To Bernard R. Ross, Chief Factor, H. B. Co. 



