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Along the whole Atlantic slope it b rare: formerly, perhaps, if was 
not uncommon, imt at prese t it is hardlj more than an occasional 
winter visitant north to the coast of New Jersey, and an accidental 
migrant to New England, thence north to Labrador, where it has only 
once been recorded. It i^ not common in the interior easl of the Miss- 
issippi River, and winters from the (iult* to southern Illinois and 
southern Ohio. The species is somewhat more common in migration 
along the eastern portion of the plain-, wintering in southern Texas 
and more commonly in northern Mexico. The principal winter home 
is on thePacific -lope from ('ape St. Lucas, Lower California, and 
Lake Chapala, Jalisco, to southern British ( lolumbia. The few Asiatic 
birds winter on the coasts of ( Ibina and Japan. 
Spring migration. The average date when the first migrants reach 
central Nebraska is March 9; Keokuk. Iowa. March 19; Aweme, Mani- 
toba. April L8 (earliest April 6, L905); Indian Head. Saskatchewan, 
April 22; Fort Vermillion, Alberta, April l'7. L904; Fort Resolution, 
Mackenzie, May 7, L860; Fort Simpson. May 11. 1904; Fort Enter- 
prise, May 17. L821; Fort Anderson, May 1»'>. L864, May 17. L865; 
Coronation Gulf, May 31, L851. 
On the Pacific slope migration is somewhat earlier; the first appear 
at St. Michael, Alaska, April 25 to May L0; at Nulato, May 6-10; 
Kowak River. May 10, L899; Point Barrow. May 16, L882, May 25, 
L883. During the second half of April the last migrants leave the 
region south of Iowa and Nebraska; the average of the last seen at 
Aweme, Manitoba, for six years is May 11, and the latest May 17. 1898; 
the last leave California the first week in May. The first eggs were 
found near the mouth of the Yukon May 27, L879; downy young were 
seen on the Kowak River June 24, L899. 
Fall migration. —Adults begin to leave the most northern breeding 
grounds by the middle of July, but so slow is the movement south- 
ward that on the average the first do not appear in southern Manitoba 
until September 26 (earliest September 7, 1902), and they reach the 
winter home. Louisiana to Texas, about the middle of October. At 
the same time the earliest of the fall migrants appear in central Cali- 
fornia, but the main flight does not arrive before November. The 
specie- ha- been noted at Stockton. Gal., as early as September 7. 
The last was noted at Point Harrow. Alaska, August L8, l^ s, J: at the 
Kowak River, September L2, L898; at St. Michael about October 7. 
and near Fort Wrigley, Mackenzie. October 9, L903. The average 
date when the last are -ecu at Aweme. Manitoba, is October L3, and 
the latest was November 3, L899. 
Anser fabalis I Lath.). Bean « • 
An OKI World species of accidental occurrence (once) in northern 
Greenland. 
