. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . 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; u
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . 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. 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.^ 1 Jeffries, Wm. A.: Auk, 1889, p. 68. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 175 WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE {Anser albifrons 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 w
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