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Eangb. — Interior of North America, east of Eocky Moimtains, 

 breeding on tlie eastern shores of Hudson Bay; migrating south in 

 winter through the Mississippi Valley to the Gulf coast; occasional on 

 Atlantic Coast. 



Nest and Eggs, unknown. 



Bare migrant. Dr. Eufus Haj'mond first identified this goose in 

 Indiana. (Ind. Geol. Eept., 1869, p. 331.) Prof. B. W. Evermanm 

 found three specimens in the Terre Haute market April 2, 1887, 

 which were killed about eighteen miles south of that city, in Suljivan 

 County. A few days later he saw another of these geese in the city 

 market. 



Mr. Chas. Dury reports it from Chalmers and English Lake. Mr. 

 J. 0. Dunn informs me that there is a mounted specimen in the Hyde 

 Park (Chicago) High School, labeled Wolf Lake, Indiana. December 

 18, 1884, he also reports seeing twelve specimens in South Water 

 Street market, Chicago, March 39, and others again April 7, 1894, all 

 of which had been killed in Illinois. Mrs. Jane L. Hine states that a 

 taxidermist at Hudson, Steuben County, has a Blue Goose that he 

 says was shot early in the spring of 1891 in a swamp not far from 

 Stony Lake, Dekalb County. Mr. Mortimer Leyering, of Lafayette, 

 has two of these geese, which were shot and crippled from a flock near 

 Morocco, Newton County, in 1893. He has kept them, and one Snow 

 Goose taken at the same time, for five years, and they have become 

 quite tame. 



Dr. McChesney, in his account of the birds of northern Dakota, 

 says they are found there, in the fall, mixed with flocks of Snow Geese, 

 but he never observed them in the spring. As the above references will 

 show, most of those noted in Indiana and the vicinity of Chicago have 

 been seen in the spring. 



26. Genus AN.-BR Bbisson. 



a'. Fore part of head and feathers at base of bill white, or fore part of head dusky 

 and nail of bill, black. A. alljifrous gambeli (Hartl.) 54 



54. (171a). Anser albifrons gambeli (Hartl). 



American White-fronted Goose. 

 Synonyms, Laughing Goose, Gray Brant. 



Adult. — Fore part of head and forehead, white, bordered behind with 

 blackish; upper tail coverts, sides of rump and crissum, white; under 

 parts whitish blotched with black; rest of head and neck grayish- 

 brown, shading lighter as it joins the breast; back dark gray, the feath- 

 ers tipped with brown; greater coverts and secondaries bordered with 



