518 BIRDS—ANATIDA. 
Lamine of bill moderately exposed ; tail normally of sixteen feathers. Under-parts 
white or gray, extensively blotched with black; back dark-gray, with paler or brown- 
ish edgings of the feathers; upper tail-coverts white; head and neck grayish-brown, 
the forehead conspicuously pure white (in the adult; dark in some states); bill pale 
lake; feet orange, with pale claws. Length, about 27 inches; wing, 16-18; tail, 5-6; 
tarsus, 22-3; middle toe and claw about the same. Only differs from the European in 
an average longer bill (1#-2 instead of 14-14). 
Habitat, Continent of North America; breeding in the far north; wintering in the 
United States. Cuba. 
Not common spring and fall migrant, perhaps a not infrequent winter 
resident in some localites. The W hite-fronted Goose is more common on 
the lake and reservoirs than elsewhere, but is occasionally found on the 
Ohio River and streams in the interior of the State. Mr. Langdon notes 
its capture in the vicinity of Cincinnati. A specimen in my collection 
was taken by Mr. Warren Clark, in Fairfield county, and I have seen 
specimens from Western Ohio. opt 
The eggs of this species are dull greenish-yellow with obscure darker 
tints. They measure 3.00 by 2.00. : 
ANSER HYPERBOREUS. Pall. 
Snow Goose, 
Anser hyperboreus, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 166, 186.— WHEATON, Ohio Agric. 
Rep. for 1860, 369, 378; Reprint, 1861, 11, 20; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 
1874, 574; Reprint, 1875, 13.— LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 16; Revised List, 
Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 185; Reprint, 19. 
Snow Goose, KIRTLAND, Fam. Visitor, 1, 1854, 72. 
Anser hyperboreus, PALLAS, Spic. Zool., viii, 1767, 80, 25. 
Bill with lamine very prominent, owing to arching of the edges of the bill. Adult 
plumage pure white, but in most specimens the head washed with rusty-red ; primaries 
broadly black-tipped ; bill lake-red with white nail; feet the same with dark claws. 
‘Young dull bluish or pale lead coloredzen the head and upper part of the body” 
(Cassin). Length, about 30; wing, 17-19; tail, 53-65 bill, 24; tarsus, 34. 
Habitat, the whole of North America. Breeds in high latitudes, migrating and win+ 
tering in the United States ; abundant in the interior and along the Pacific Coast, rare 
on the Atlantic. Greenland, transient. Cuba. Rare or casual in Europe, 
Occasional spring and fall migrant. Not rare on Lake Erie; rare in 
the vicinity of Columbus. Mr. Langdon records three specimens taken 
on the Little Miami, near Madisonville, February, 1878. In the spring 
of 1874, a flock of about twenty visited this vicinity. These were all old 
birds. It is said that the old and young migrate in separate flocks, the 
young not attaining their full plumage until the fourth year. 
Kegs yellowish-white, 3 by 2 inches. 
The Lesser Snow Goose (var. albatus) undoubtedly occurs here, as it is 
