GEESE 



(171a) Anser albifrons gambeli 



mart.) (Lat., a goose; white forehead). 



WHITE - FRONTED GOOSE. 

 Ads. — Bill pink. Legs yellowish. 

 Plumage as shown. Im. — Similar but 

 without the white forehead or black 

 markings on breast. L., 29.00; W., 

 16.50; B., 2.00. Eggs — Si,\- or seven, 

 buff}', 3.00 X 2.05. 



Range — Breeds on the Arctic coast 

 west of Hudson Bay. Winters com- 

 monly on the Pacific coast of the 

 U. S.; rarely in the Miss. Valley and 

 on South Atlantic coast. 



(171) EUROPEAN WHITE- 

 FRONTED GOOSE, (171. i) BEAN 

 GOOSE, and (17 1. 2) PINK-FOOT- 

 ED GOOSE, are European species re- 

 corded as accidental in northern or 

 eastern Greenland. 



BLUE GEESE are peculiar in that they are not, except 

 accidentally, found on either coast of the United States. 

 During winter they are found, often in company with Snow 

 Geese, in the Mississippi Valley from UHnois south to the 

 coast of Texas. In spring, they sweep northward, by the 

 southern portion of Hudson Bay to unknown breeding 

 grounds, probably in northern Ungava. 



WHITE- FRONTED GEESE breed throughout the 

 Arctic regions of America but move to the westward during 

 fall migration, so that they are comparatively rare along 

 the Atlantic coast. They are perhaps the noisiest of the 

 geese both during migration and when nesting, their notes 

 being likened to laughter. 



Like other geese, they are very wary, this wariness being 

 the cause of the proverbial "Wild goose chase," indicative 

 of failure. They seldom can be attracted to decoys, but 

 numbers of them are taken by gunners who conceal them- 

 selves between their routes of travel to and from their 

 feeding grounds. 



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