﻿BIRDS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  233 
  

  

  Length 
  25-34 
  inches; 
  extent 
  45-50; 
  wing 
  14.75-17.75; 
  tail 
  5-6'; 
  tarsus 
  

   2.25-3.2 
  ; 
  bill 
  1. 
  2-1. 
  9. 
  

  

  This 
  race 
  of 
  the 
  Canada 
  goose 
  can 
  be 
  distinguished 
  with 
  certainty 
  only 
  

   by 
  careful 
  measurement 
  and 
  by 
  counting 
  the 
  tail 
  feathers. 
  

  

  According 
  to 
  Giraud 
  and 
  DeKay 
  this 
  species 
  was 
  not 
  uncommon 
  in 
  

   their 
  day 
  at 
  the 
  eastern 
  extremity 
  of 
  Long 
  Island, 
  where 
  it 
  was 
  known 
  as 
  

   the 
  "Mud 
  goose," 
  but 
  I 
  can 
  find 
  no 
  recent 
  records 
  of 
  it 
  in 
  Mr 
  Butcher's 
  

   Long 
  Island 
  notes. 
  Mr 
  F. 
  T. 
  Pember 
  reports 
  a 
  specimen 
  from 
  Hebron, 
  

   Washington 
  co., 
  which 
  was 
  killed 
  about 
  1880. 
  Mr 
  F. 
  S. 
  Webster 
  states 
  

   that 
  it 
  was 
  once 
  taken 
  in 
  Rensselaer 
  county. 
  Mr 
  Foster 
  Parker 
  has 
  a 
  

   specimen 
  in 
  his 
  collection 
  killed 
  at 
  Cayuga 
  about 
  1880, 
  which 
  is 
  on 
  the 
  

   border 
  line 
  between 
  the 
  dimensions 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  and 
  the 
  smallest 
  for 
  the 
  

   Canada 
  goose. 
  There 
  is 
  a 
  specimen 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  Museum, 
  killed 
  at 
  Gaines, 
  

   Orleans 
  co., 
  in 
  1888, 
  recorded 
  by 
  Posson 
  [Auk, 
  16:193]. 
  Dr 
  W. 
  M. 
  Beau- 
  

   champ 
  in 
  a 
  letter 
  to 
  Dr 
  Farr 
  dated 
  January 
  31st, 
  1900, 
  reports 
  a 
  specimen 
  

   shot 
  at 
  Baldwinsville, 
  September 
  13th, 
  1897. 
  It 
  is 
  probable 
  that 
  this 
  

   subspecies 
  is 
  more 
  common 
  in 
  western 
  New 
  York 
  than 
  these 
  meager 
  data 
  

   would 
  indicate, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  overlooked 
  by 
  the 
  ordinary 
  observer, 
  being 
  con- 
  

   sidered 
  merely 
  the 
  young 
  of 
  the 
  Canada 
  goose. 
  The 
  summer 
  home 
  of 
  the 
  

   Hutchins 
  goose 
  is 
  principally 
  along 
  the 
  Arctic 
  coast 
  from 
  Melville 
  peninsula 
  

   to 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Mackenzie 
  and 
  the 
  interior 
  of 
  Alaska. 
  Its 
  winter 
  home 
  

   is 
  chiefly 
  in 
  California' 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  southwestern 
  states 
  and 
  its 
  line 
  of 
  

   migration 
  lies 
  almost 
  wholly 
  west 
  of 
  Hudson 
  bay 
  and 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  river. 
  

  

  Branta 
  bernicla 
  glaucogastra 
  (Brehm) 
  

   Brant; 
  Light-bellied 
  Brant 
  

  

  Plate 
  22 
  

  

  Branta 
  glaucogastra 
  Brehm. 
  Handbuch 
  Vog. 
  Deutschl. 
  1831. 
  p. 
  849 
  

   Anser 
  bernicla 
  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  351, 
  fig. 
  239 
  

   Branta 
  bernicla 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  173 
  

  

  her'nida, 
  from 
  Old 
  Eng. 
  bernekke, 
  the 
  barnacle 
  said 
  to 
  be 
  named 
  from 
  this 
  bird 
  

  

  glaiicogas'tra, 
  Gr. 
  ykauxo!;, 
  shining; 
  yairrrjp, 
  belly 
  

  

  Description. 
  Head, 
  neck 
  and 
  forepart 
  of 
  body 
  shiny 
  black, 
  giving 
  way 
  

   abruptly 
  to 
  the 
  brownish 
  gray 
  of 
  the 
  back 
  and 
  the 
  lighter 
  ashy 
  gray 
  of 
  

   the 
  under 
  parts, 
  the 
  body 
  feathers 
  edged 
  with 
  paler; 
  patch 
  of 
  white 
  streaks 
  

  

  