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Local Names of Migratory Game Birds. 35 
of the barred plumage) (La.); oie nonnette (nun goose, suggested no doubt by the 
“white front”) (La.); pied brant (La.);speckled brant (Man., Nebr., Wash.); speckled 
goose (Oreg.); specklebreast (Calif.); speckle-breasted brant (Ariz.); speckle-breast 
goose (Oreg.); spotted brant (Calif.); spotted goose (‘Tex.); Texas goose (Nebr.); timber 
goose (refers to the subspecies albifrons while gambelli is distinguished in the same 
ee. the name tule goose) (Calif.); yellow-legged goose, yellowlegs (Wash., 
‘alif.). 
Geographic index.—Alaska, gray goose; Alta., gray wavy; Ariz., speckle-breasted 
brant; B. C., China goose, gray brant; Calif, checker-belly, checkerbreast, gray 
brant, gray goose, laughing goose, marbled-breast, mottled brant, specklebreast, 
spotted brant, timber goose, tule goose, yellow-legged goose, yellowlegs; Jil., brant; 
Ind., gray goose; Jowa, brant, gray brant; Kans., California goose; La., gray brant, ole 
caille, oie nonnette, pied brant; Man., brant, laughing goose, speckled brant; Minn., 
brant, gray brant; Mo., brant; Nebr., speckled brant, Texas goose; NV. Dak., California 
goose; V. W. T., brant, laughing goose; Oreg., speckled goose, speckle-breast goose; 
Sask., gray wavy; S. Dak., laughing goose; Tex., gray goose, mottled goose, spotted 
goose; Wash., gray goose, speckled brant, yellow-legged goose, yellowlegs; Wis., brant. 
BOOK NAMES. 
American white-fronted goose, European white-fronted goose, gridiron goose, 
harlequin brant, large white-ironted goose, Mexican goose, oie d’Amérique 4 front 
blanc (American white-fronted goose), ole 4 front blanc, oie 4 front blanc d’ Amérique, 
ole rieuse (laughing goose), pled goose, prairie brant, prairie goose, whistling goose, 
_ yellow-legged brant. 
171.1 Bean Goose (Anser fabalis). 
-Range.—Northern parts ofthe Old World. Breedsin northern Europe and northern Asia from Russian 
Lapland east tothe Yenisei River, and northto Nova Zembla; winters south to southern Europe, northern 
Africa, Northern India, and China; recorded from northern Greenland. 
Names.—Called bean goose, corn goose, and wild goose in Great Britain and oie des 
moissons (harvest goose), ole sauvage (wild goose), and ole vulgaire (common goose) 
in France. 
171.2 Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus). 
Range——Europe. Breeds on Spitzbergen; winters south to northwestern Europe, occasionally to 
Germany and France; accidental on east coast of Greenland. 
Names.—A book name is oie & bec court (short-billed goose). 
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis). (Fie. 29.) 
The Canada goose is held to comprise four subspecies ( Nos. 172, 172a, 172b, and 172c), 
and asitis possible to allocate practically all of the names applied to them, the four 
are here givenseparate treatment. Namesused probably more or less indiscriminately 
for all the subspecies are Canada goose (sometimes Canada gray goose, ole canadienne, 
Canadian goose, or shortened to Canada) and wild goose, common wild goose, gray 
goose, or simply goose. 
172. Honker (Branta canadensis canadensis). 
Range.—North America. Breeds from limit of trees in the valley of the lower Yukon, northwestern 
Mackenzie(N. W.T.),and central Keewatin ( Que.) south to northeastern California, northern Colorado, 
Nebraska, and Indiana:formerly bred casually south to New Mexico, Kansas, Tennessee, and Massachu- 
setts; wintersfrom southern British Columbia, southern Colorado, southern Wisconsin, southern Illinois 
and New Jersey (rarely southern Ontario and Newfoundland) south to southern California, Texas, an 
Florida; accidentalin Bermuda and Jamaica. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Honker, varied to honker goose, big honker, Canada honker, and old 
honker and corrupted to hunker and hunter. 
In local use.—Bay goose (Tex.); bernache (French name of the barnacle goose) (La.); 
big Mexican goose (Calif. ); blackie (Tex.); black-necked goose (I1l.); brant (Me., La.); 
French goose (La.); Mexican goose (Calif.); nigger goose ( Va.); northern goose (B. C.); 
outarde (bustard)(N. W. T., Que., La.); reef goose (N. C.); ringneck, ringneck goose 
(La., Tex.); wavy (N. W. T., Man.). ; she . 
Geographicindex.—B. C., northern goose; Calif., big Mexican goose, Mexican goose; 
Ill., black-necked goose; La., bernache, brant, French goose, outarde, ringneck, ring- 
neck goose; Me., brant; Man., wavy; N. C., reef goose; N. W. T., outarde, wavy; 
Que., outarde; Tex., bay goose, blackie, ringneck, ringneck goose; Va., nigger goose. 
