BxEDS ov Indiana. 635 



are (J^qidedly OYal.. In color they are a dull wbite, but ordinarily pre- 

 seuit a dirty brQwn appearance from being stained in the nest. 



The young are pretty little objects, and are guarded with the great- 

 est care by the parents, the male and female joining in conducting 

 their young from place to place and defending them from danger." 

 (1^'elson, Report Nat. Hist. Coll. in Alaska.) 



27. Genus BRANTA Scopoli. 



a' . Head black ; cheeks and tUiroat white. 



6'. Larger; leogth 3&,00' or over. B. canadensis. (Linn.). 55- 



b'. Smaller; length uad-ec 35.00. 



Bi. ces*.d!eiisi.s hutehiasii (Sw. & Rich.). 56 

 a'. Throat black, or brownish black; white streaks, or spots, on each side of neck. 



B. bernicla (Linn..). 57 



*SS.. iV2). Buainta eaaa^enssis (Liinn.).. 



Ca]3,ada 0oose. 

 Sympnywi^ COWSWN Wild Goose. 



Adiil^ Male. — Head asd necls black, with a broad white patch on 

 throa^lj;!. extending up into, each dieek; tail ajad qjUals. black; upper tail 

 coverts white; upper paj'ts. IjKDOwnish, the featherti with lighter tip.?; be- 

 low, light brownjsh-^.ay,, a<lmost white on erissum, all the feathers 

 with, lighter edges; bMl a®d feet, deep, black. 



Lea^h, abouit 35.QO'-..4aO0i; wing, 15.60-21.00; bill, 1.38-2.70'; tarsus, 

 2.45-3. TO. 



EAsq-jK, — No)?^h Aiaewfti breeds, frogi Indiana, I'llinioi^. Tewiessee 

 northward from SiOackenzi^ YaJiley to Atljaniic C^ast. Winters from 

 southern limit of breeding range south to Gulf States and into Mexico. 



Nest, usually in a hollow in the sand, lined with down, and a few 

 sticks around the edge. Along the upper Missouri it breeds in trees. 

 (Coues, B. K. W.) Eggs, 4-7; paie dull greenish; 3.55 by 3.27. 



Qommon migrant; sometimes, winter resident in the northern patt 

 of lihe. Siate; resident i:^, some numbers. They often breed. Formerly 

 these geese were much more ahundant than now, but they are still 

 common during the migrations among the- lakes- and marshes of noirthj- 

 ew Indiana. 



This is the common Wild Goose. Almost every mild winter more or 

 lesst of theni remain in one part, if not another, of the lower Wabash 

 Yalfleyi. M^r. E. J. ChanglCT says a, few yearsi ago. the prairieS: of Kaax 

 Countj^. were covered with tfeese geese many days-i during- the- winter; 

 They Qwld. be seen by thousands, Now they are seldom met wdtfe. 

 The winters of 1886-7 and 18aS-3 they remained in the valley of the 



