. . Length. — About 25 to 28 inches. Adult. — Back grayish brown; head, upper part of neck and rump bluishgray; wings same, shading to black at ends; flanks grayish brown;feathers tipped with pale brown; tail dusky, edged with white; underparts white; bill and feet purplish red. Young. — Like adult, except head and neck dark grayish brown; chin onlywhite. Range. — Eastern North America. Breeding range unknown, but proba-bly interior of northern Ungava; winters from Nebraska and southernIllinois south to coasts of Texas and Louisiana;
. . Length. — About 25 to 28 inches. Adult. — Back grayish brown; head, upper part of neck and rump bluishgray; wings same, shading to black at ends; flanks grayish brown;feathers tipped with pale brown; tail dusky, edged with white; underparts white; bill and feet purplish red. Young. — Like adult, except head and neck dark grayish brown; chin onlywhite. Range. — Eastern North America. Breeding range unknown, but proba-bly interior of northern Ungava; winters from Nebraska and southernIllinois south to coasts of Texas and Louisiana; rare or casual in migra-tion in California, and from New Hampshire to Florida, Cuba and theBahamas. History. There is no reason to believe that this western species wasever more than casual here. A young female, shot at Gloucester,October 20,1876, is now in the collection of the Boston Societyof Natural History.^ > Jeffries, Wm. A.: Auk, 1889, p. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 175 WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE {Anser alhifrons gambeli).. Length. — 27 to 30 inches. Adult in Fall and Winter. — Above brownish gray, the feathers paler onedges; forehead, fore face and after parts white; wings and tail dark;tail tipped and edged with white; under parts, except white ventralparts, brownish gray, with large blotches of black; a white or whitishline on upper edge of flank; bill pale carmine or pink, with white nail(the bill turns yellow in the breeding season); feet yellow; iris darkbrown. Young. — Similar but browner; markings more suffused, and without blackblotches below or white on face; bill, eyes and feet as in adult, but billhas no white on tip. Range. — Central and western North America and Pacific coast of on and near the Arctic coast from northeastern Siberia east tonortheastern Mackenzie and south to lower Yukon valley; winterscommonly from southern British Columbia to southern Lower Cali-fornia and Jalisco, and rarely from southern Illinois, southern O
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