. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual . is-sissippi valley. Only a few individuals are seen on the New Eng-land and Canadian shores. Immense flocks are met with on theGreat Plains. Note. — The Lesser Snow Goose {Chen /lyperborea), the Westernform of this species, which breeds in Alaska, is found in winteroccasionally in southern Illinois. BLUE wavey. Chen c^rulescens. Char. Back grayish brown; head, neck, and rump white; wingsbluish gray, sliading to black on ends ; tail dusky ; under parts white ; billand feet purplish re
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual . is-sissippi valley. Only a few individuals are seen on the New Eng-land and Canadian shores. Immense flocks are met with on theGreat Plains. Note. — The Lesser Snow Goose {Chen /lyperborea), the Westernform of this species, which breeds in Alaska, is found in winteroccasionally in southern Illinois. BLUE wavey. Chen c^rulescens. Char. Back grayish brown; head, neck, and rump white; wingsbluish gray, sliading to black on ends ; tail dusky ; under parts white ; billand feet purplish red. Length about 25 inches. Nest and E^gs. Unknown, but probably similar to the -Snow Goose. After much contention and relegation for a time to the Hypo-thetical List, under the supposition that it was the young of theSnow Goose, this has been admitted as a valid species. Its breeding area lies along the shores of Hudson Bay, and itswinter home is on the Gulf coast, whence it migrates chiefly alongthe valley of the Mississippi. In habits the Blue Goose does not differ materially from AMERICAN WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. LAUGHING ALBIFRONS GAJMBELI. Char. Upper parts brownish ash, the feathers paler on the edges;forehead and rump white ; wings and tail dusky; under parts brownishgray, blotched with black; bill yellow, with white nail ; legs and feetorange. Length about 30 inches. Aist. Amid rank grass and made of coarse herbage and lined with grassand feathers, — sometimes a mere depression at the summit of a grassymound or in the sand on the bank of a river, lined with feathers and down. ^gg^- 5-7; creamy white; X The White-fronted Goose breeds chiefly in the interior of thecontinent on the skirts of the forest portions of sub-arctic regions,and winters in Mexico and the West Indies. During the migra-tions this Goose is rare along the Atlantic coast, but plentiful onthe plains, and quite common about the Great Lakes. Numbers of this species nest i
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