36 Miscellaneous Circular 15, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Bernache du Canada (Canadian barnacle goose), big goose, big gray goose, big wild 
goose, black goose, blackhead Canada goose, black-headed goose, bustard, Canada 
- brant, common gray goose, cravat goose, cygne canadien (Canadian swan), large 
Canada goose, long-necked goose, oie 4 cravate (cravat goose), ole sauvage du Canada 
(Canada wild goose), swan goose. 
172a. Hutchins Goose (Branta canadensis hutchinsit). 
Range.—Western North America. Breedsfrom Kowak Valley, Alaska, and from mouth of Mackenzie 
(N. W. T.) east along Arctic shores and islands from latitude 70° south to Melville Peninsula and north- 
western Hudson Bay; winters from British Columbia, Nevada, Colorado, and Missouri south to San 
Rafaelin Lower California, Texas, and Louisiana; accidentalin Vera Cruz; in migration rare east of the 
Mississippi Valley but recorded on the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Florida. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Brant, little honker. 
In local use.—Bernache (La.); black brant (N. Dak., S. Dak., Kans.); blackleg 
(Alaska); California goose (Kans.); China goose (Calif.); crybaby (B. C.); eastern 
FIG. 29.—Canada Goose. 
brant (Md.); Eskimo goose (N. W. T.); flight goose (Me.); goose brant (Ill.); gray 
brant (Oreg.); little gray goose (Man.); little wavy (N. W. T.); marsh goose (N. C.); 
mountain goosé (N. Dak.); mud goose (Long Id., N. Y.); pisk-a-sish (a Cree Indian 
name, said to be properly spelled apistiskeesh) (N. W. T.); prairie goose (Tex.); 
southern goose (Conn.). 
Geographic index.—Alaska, blackleg; B. C., crybaby; Calif., China goose; Conn., 
southern goose; J/l., goose brant; Kans., black brant, California goose; La., bernache; 
Me., flight goose; Man., little gray goose; Md., eastern brant; N._Y., mud goose; 
N. C., marsh goose; N. Dak., black brant, mountain goose; N. W. T., Eskimo goose, 
little wavy, pisk-a-sish; Oreg., gray brant; S. Dak., black brant; Tex., prairie goose. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Bernache de Hutchins (Hutchins’s barnacle goose), Hutchins’s barnacle goose, 
Hutchins’s brant, Hutchins’s Canada goose, Hutchins’s white-cheeked goose, lesser 
Canada goose, little goose, medium-sized honker, Mexican goose, little wild goose, 
short-necked goose, small gray goose, wheat goose. 
172b. White-cheeked Goose (Branta canadensis occidentalis). 
Range.—Pacifie coast of North America. Breeds from Prince William Sound and Mitkof Island south 
to British Columbia, winters from Washington to southern California, 
