CHLOEPHAG-A CAN AG-IC A. 
ALEUTIAN GOOSE. 
BERNICLA PICT A. Pallas. Zool. Boss. Asiat., p. 233-67. 
CHLOEPHAGA CANAGICA Eyton Mon. Anat. 
This very handsome and singularly-marked Goose is a native of our Northwest Coast, and of the islands stretching away to the 
Asiatic shore. It is, I believe, abundant among the Aleutian Group, and has been received at the Smithsonian Institute from the 
Pacific coast, near Yancouver Island, and also observed in British Columbia. 
Prom its conspicuous plumage, it would not likely be passed unnoticed by any of the adventurous naturalists who have visited those 
portions of our continent, and, as it is probably more particularly a sea-bird, obtaining subsistence from the ocean, or on the low islands 
which abound in those northern latitudes, it may approach the mainland of either hemisphere but seldom. 
I regret that nothing has ever been recorded of its habits ; but the absence of any published accounts from which a full history 
of a species might be given, is one of the many disadvantages the ornithologist labors under when treating of new or little-known 
birds. 
Head and back-part of neck, white. Chin, throat, sides, and fore-part of neck, blackish-brown, with a few indistinct white spots 
on the sides of the neck. Rest of plumage, bluish, each feather tipped with white, anterior to which is a narrow band of black. 
Primaries, brown. Tail, white. Bill, legs, and feet, reddish-yellow. 
