CuassIl. WHITE FRONTED GOOSE. 
gb) 
Anas albifrons. A. cinerea, L’Oye sauvage du nord. Bris« 
- fronte alba. Lath. Ind. son av. vi. 269. 
orn. 842. id. Syn. vi. 463. L’Oierieuse. Hisf. d’ois. ix. 81. 
The laughing Goose. Edw. Polnische Ganss. Kram. 339. 
av. tab. 153. Danis Vild Gaas. Brunnich, 
Anas erythropus (fem.) Lin. gp 
“ syst. 197. ' Br. Zool. 150. Q. 1. Arcé. 
Anas albifrons. Gm. Lin. 509. Zool. ii. 270. 
Fizllgas. Faun. Suec. sp. 116. 
5. WHITE 
FRONTED. 
Tue weight of this kind is about five pounds Dzscrrp. 
and a half; the length two feet four inches; the 
extent four feet six. The bill is elevated, of a. 
pale yellow color, with a white nail; the fore- 
head white; the head and neck of the same 
color with these of the preceding species; the 
coyerts of the wing, the primaries and seconda- 
ries darker ; in the tail the ash color predomi- 
nates; the ends of the feathers are white; in 
some, perhaps in young birds, of the same color 
with the other part of the tail; this, as in the two 
preceding, surrounded with a white rmg. The 
breast and belly are of a dirty white, marked 
with spots of black; the legs yellow; the nails 
whitish. ‘The female is inferior in size to the. 
male, and the bed of feathers at the base of the 
bill, which in the other sex is of a pure white, is 
mottled with dusky; it also differs in having the 
breast and belly of an uniform light ash color. 
TION. 
