. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions : or, The swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America . regions. Adult.—Resembles the Lesser Snow Goose in the color of theplumage, but is somewhat larger in its measurements. Averagetotal length, 34 inches; wing, 17^; tarsus, 3^; culmen, 2^^.The average difference between the Greater and Lesser SnowGeese as given in Ridgways Manual is, total length, g inches;wing, ij^; culmen. \\ tarsus, y\j. From these measurements it will be perceived that it would bepractically hopeless to try to originate any method for accu-rately separ
. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions : or, The swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America . regions. Adult.—Resembles the Lesser Snow Goose in the color of theplumage, but is somewhat larger in its measurements. Averagetotal length, 34 inches; wing, 17^; tarsus, 3^; culmen, 2^^.The average difference between the Greater and Lesser SnowGeese as given in Ridgways Manual is, total length, g inches;wing, ij^; culmen. \\ tarsus, y\j. From these measurements it will be perceived that it would bepractically hopeless to try to originate any method for accu-rately separating these birds, for a specimen of the Lesser SnowGoose might be found larger than one of its supposed big brothers. Downy Young.—Lores, dusky. Two black stripes from bill,passing above and beneath the eye. Top of head, dark olivebrown. Sides of head, neck, and entire under parts, light parts, dark olive brown. Bill, black; nail, yellowishwhite. Specimen in Academy of Natural Sciences, procured lothJuly, 1893. at Glacier Valley, Greenland, together with the adultfemale; Lieutenant Pearys ROSSS SNOW GOOSE. n^HIS is one of the smallest Geese known, a fully adulti)ird weighing only about two and a half to threepounds. It is remarkable for the curious carunculationsat the base of the bill. It breeds in some part of theArctic regions, but its nest and eggs have not as yet beendiscovered. Rosss Goose has never been found on theAtlantic coast of the United States, but it is not uncom-mon in parts of California in winter, and has been seenin the San Joaquin Valley in considerable numbers. Itsjourney to the south seems to lie to the westward en-tirely, and but little is known of its habits beyond the fewobservations made in California, and I have always re-garded it as the rarest of our Geese. It has a cry like thatof the Cackling Goose, and usually associates with theLesser Snow Goose, and accompanies flocks of that birdin the air, flying on one side or
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