. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual . 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
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual . 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 in Greenland, but they are said tobe of the European race, — true albifrons, — and they probablymigrate southward by the way of Iceland and the British Isles. The name of Laughing Goose is derived from the call, which isloud and trumpet-like. It sounds something like %vah, wah, waJu7vah, repeated CANADA GOOSE. wild canadensis. Char. Mantle grayish brown, the feathers with paler edges ; head andneck black, a broad white patch on the throat; tail black, tail-covertswhite; under parts gray, shading to white on the under tail-coverts; billand legs black. Length about 36 inches. Nest. In a variety of situations, but usually on the ground and madeof twigs and grass loosely laid and lined with feathers and down. ^SS^- 5~7 ; P^e dull green ; X The Common Wild Goose of America is known familiarly inevery part of the Union as a bird of passage to and from itsbreeding-places in the interior and north of the continent. Thearrival of these birds in the desolate fur coimtries of HudsonBay is anxiously looked for and hailed with joy by the abo-rigines of the woody and swampy districts which they frequent,who depend principally upon them for subsistence during the 286 SW
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