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a. [Anser albifrons albitrons (Scofoli). European White-fronted Goose. 

 [171.] 



Branta alhifrons Scopoli, Annus I, Hist.-Nat., 1769, 69. 



Range. — Northern parts of Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds in Iceland, 

 Nova Zembla, northern Europe, and northern Asia, passing south in 

 winter to Egypt, India, and China. Of doubtful record from eastern Green- 

 land.] 



6. Anser albifrons g&mbeli Hartlaub. White-fronted Goose. [171a.] 



Anser gambelli Haetlaub, Revue et Mag. Zool., 1852, 7. (Southern 

 part of North America.) 



Range. — Central and western North America. Breeds on and near the 

 Arctic coast from northeastern Siberia east to northeastern Mackenzie and 

 south to lower Yukon Valley; winters commonly from southern British 

 Columbia to southern Lower California and Jalisco, and rarely from southern 

 Illinois, southern Ohio, and New Jersey south to northeastern Mexico, 

 southern Texas, and Cuba, and on the Asiatic coast to China and Japan; 

 rare in migration on the Atlantic coast north to Ungava. 



[Anser fabdlis (Latham). Bean Goose. [171.1.] 



Anasfabalis Latham, Suppl. Gen. Synopsis, I, 1787, 297. (England?) 



Range. — Northern parts of the Old World. Breeds in northern 

 Europe and northern Asia from Russian Lapland east to the Yenisei 

 River, and north to Nova Zembla; winters south to southern Europe, 

 northern Africa, and China; recorded from northern Greenland.] 



[Anser brachyrhynchus Baillon. Pink-footed Goose. [171.2.] 



Anser brachyrhynchus Baillon, Mto. Soc. Roy. d'Emul. d' Abbeville, 

 1833, 74. (Abbeville, France.) 



Range. — Europe. Breeds on Spitzbergen; winters south to north- 

 western Europe, occasionally to Germany and France; accidental on 

 east coast of Greenland.] 



Genus BRANTA Scopoli. 



Branta Scopoli, Annus I, Hist.-Nat., 1769, 67. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Anas berniclg. Linn.s;us (Bannister, 1870). 



