No. 3. 



Branta canadensis hutchinsii. 



A small variety of our common wild goose No. 1, and in ap- 

 pearance (excepting size) like it in all respects. 



Length about twenty-seven inches ; extent a little over four 

 feet. 



Not common on, or very near to, our Eastern coast, but numer- 

 ous in the West during migrations. Breeds in Arctic regions. 



HUTCHINS'S GOOSE: HUTCHINS'S CANADA GOOSE: HUTCH- 

 INS'S BARNACLE GOOSE (the Barnacle Goose proper, Branta 

 leucopsis, "casual in Eastern North America," was named from 

 an early belief that it originated in the shell of a barnacle, or, 

 rather, was the natural fruit of a little crustacean) : HUTCHINS'S 

 BRANT: LESSER CANADA GOOSE: SMALL GRAY GOOSE: LITTLE 

 WILD GOOSE. 



Hearne writes, referring to this variety in his Journey to 

 Northern Ocean, published 1195, "CANADA GOOSE, or PISK A 

 SISH, as it is called by the Indians, as well as the English in 

 Hudson's Bay," and Richardson, in Boat Yoyage, 1851, speaks 

 of its being called ESKIMO GOOSE in Rupert's Land. 



In Audubon's Ornithological Biography, Vol. III., 1835, we 

 find under the heading of Hutchins's Goose, the following: 

 " In the first article in this volume, that of the Canada Goose, 

 ... I had occasion to allude to a small species, called by the 

 gunners of Maine the Winter or Flight Goose, which they de- 

 scribed to me as resembling the large and common kind in 

 almost every particular except its size. Although it was not 

 my good-fortune while there to meet with the bird spoken of 

 by men who were well acquainted with it, I have no doubt that 



