ANATIN^. ANSER. 
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Male, 43, 65. Female, 41. 
Breeds sparingly from the Mississippi to Nova Scotia ; abundantly 
in Labrador, and farther north. In the interior, on the Missouri, and 
across to the Columbia River. Abundant. Migrates far south in 
winter. 
Canada Goose, Anas canadensis, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 52. 
Anser canadensis, Bonap. Syn. p. 377. 
Anser canadensis, Canada Goose, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 468. 
Canada Goose, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 349. 
Canada Goose, Anser canadensis, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 1 ; v. v. p. 607. 
379. 2. Anser Hutchinsii, Richardson. Hutchins’s Goose. 
Plate CCLXXVII. Adult. 
Tail of sixteen feathers ; bill, feet, and claws black ; head and two 
upper thirds of neck glossy black ; a large subtriangular patch of white 
on each side of the head and neck ; general colour of the upper parts 
brownish-grey, the feathers margined with paler, of the lower parts 
pale greyish-brown, margined with yellowish-grey ; abdomen and 
lower tail-coverts white ; hind part of back brownish-black ; primary 
quills and tail-feathers deep brown. 
Adult, 25, 50. 
From New Jersey to Maine, during winter. Breeds in the Arctic 
Regions. Columbia River. Abundant. 
Anser Hutchinsii, Hutchins’s Bernacle Goose, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. 
V. ii. p. 470. 
Hutchins’s Goose, Anser Hutchinsii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 526. 
380. 3. Anser leucopsis, Bechst. Bernacle Goose. 
Plate CCXCVI. Male and Female. 
Tail very short, rounded, of sixteen feathers ; bill, feet, and claws 
black ; anterior parts of head, including a broad space above the eye, 
the sides of the head and the throat, white ; feathers margining the 
bill, and a line from the bill to the eye, curving beneath the lower eye- 
lid, and running along the upper, brownish-black; neck all round 
glossy bluish-black, of which colour are the anterior feathers ; the sca- 
pulars, and the wing-coverts, towards their extremities, while the bases 
are ash-grey, and their terminal margins white ; rump and tail-feathers 
deep black; quills greyish-black, darker towards the tips, the outer 
webs more or less tinged with ash-grey ; upper and lower tail-coverts, 
and sides of rump, pure white. 
Male, 27, 56. Female, 2Sh, 52. 
Accidental in North America. 
Anser leucopsis, Bonap. Syn. p. 377. 
Bernacle Goose, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 355. 
Bernacle Goose, Anser leucopsis, Aud. Orp. Biog. v. iii. p. 609. 
