BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 



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WHITE- FRONTED GOOSE {Anser albifrons gavibeli) . 



Length. — 27 to 30 inches. 



Adult in Fall and Winter. — Above brownish gray, the feathers paler on 

 edges; forehead, fore face and after parts white; wings and tail dark; 

 tail tipped and edged with white; under parts, except white ventral 

 parts, brownish gray, with large blotches of black; a white or whitish 

 line on upper edge of flank; bill pale carmine or pink, with white nail 

 (the bill turns yellow in the breeding season); feet yellow; iris dark 

 brown. 



Young. — Similar but browner; markings more suffused, and without black 

 blotches below or white on face; bill, eyes and feet as in adult, but bill 

 has no white on tip. 



Range. — Central and western North America and Pacific coast of Asia. 

 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 Cali- 

 fornia 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. 



