518 BIBDS — ABTATID^. 



Laminss of bill moderately exposeil ; tail normally of eixteen feathers. TJnder-parts 

 white or gray, extoniively hlotohed with black ; back dark-gray, with paler or brown- 

 iBh edgingg of the feathers ; upper tail-coverts white ; head and neck grayish-brown, 

 the forehead couspicuonsly pnre white (in the adnlt ; dark in some states) ; bill pale 

 lake ; feet orange, with pale claws. Length, abent 37 inches ; wing, 16-18 ; tail, 5-6 ; 

 tarsns, 3f-3 ; middle toe and claw alsont the same. Only differs from the European in 

 an average longer bill (IJ-Sinstead of li-li). 



Habitat, Continent ef North America ; braediag in the far north ; wintering in the 

 United States. (Suba. 



Not common spring and fall migrant, perhaps a not infrequent winter 

 resident in some localites. The White-fronted Goose is more common on 

 the lake and reservoirs than elsewhere, but is occasionally found on the 

 Ohio River and streams in the interior of the State. Mr. Langdon notes 

 its capture in the viciaity of Cincinnati. A specimen in my collection 

 was taken by Mr. Warren Clark, in Fairfield county, and I have seen 

 specimens from Western Ohio. 



The eggs of this species are dull greenish-yellow with obscure darker 

 tints. They measure 3.00 by 2.00. 



Ansee hypebboreus. Pall. 



Srxo^r Gt-oose. 



Anser hyptrloreus, Kirtland, Ohio Greoloj. Surv., 1838, 166, 186. — Whbaton, Ohio Agrio. 

 Rep. for 1860, 369, 378 ; Reprint, 1861, 11, 20 ; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric, Rep. for 

 1874, 574 ; Reprint, 1876, 13.— Lanodon, Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 16 ; Revised List, 

 Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 185; Reprint, 19. 



Snow Goose, Kirtland, Fam. Visitor, i, 1854, 72. 



Ansar hypirioreua, Pallas, Spic. Zool., viii, 1767, 80, 25. 



Bill with laminsB very prominent, owing to arching of the edges of the bill. Adnlt 

 plumage pure white, but in most specimens the head washed with rusty-red ; primaries 

 broadly black-tipped ; bill lake-red with white nail ; feet the same with dark claws, 

 " Young d«ll bluish or pale lead colored on the head and upper part of the body" 

 (Cassin). Length, about 30; wing, 17-19; tail, 5^-6; bill, 2i; tarsus, 3^. 



Habitat, the whole of North America. Breeds in high latitudes, migrating and win- 

 tering in the United States ; abundant in the interior and along the Pacific Coast, rare 

 on tbe Atlantic. Qreenlantl, transient. Cuba. Rare or casual in Europe, 



Occasional spring and fall migrant. Not rare on Lake Erie ; rare in 

 the vicinity of Columbus. Mr. Langdon records three specimens taken 

 on the Little Miami, near Madisonville, February, 1878. In the spring 

 of 1874:, a flock of about twenty visited this vicinity. These were all old 

 birds. It is said that the old and young migrate in separate flocks, the 

 young not attaining their full plumage until the fourth year, 



Bggs yellowish-white, 3 by 2 inches. 



The Leiser Snow Goose (var. cUbatui) undoubtedly occurs here, as it is 



