. Feathered game of the Northeast . as the Canada. The length of this spe-cies is between twenty-eight and thirty inches,with a wingspread of from fifty-eight to sixty-two inches. There are two other species of Snow Geesein North America, both inhabiting the westernhalf of the continent,—the Lesser Snow Goose{Chen hyperhorea), a race which probably in-tergrades with the present species, breedingin Arctic America and Alaska and in wintercoming south to the central plains, or on thecoast to southern California,—and Ross SnowGoose [Chen rossii), the smallest of NorthAmerican geese, mainly a marit
. Feathered game of the Northeast . as the Canada. The length of this spe-cies is between twenty-eight and thirty inches,with a wingspread of from fifty-eight to sixty-two inches. There are two other species of Snow Geesein North America, both inhabiting the westernhalf of the continent,—the Lesser Snow Goose{Chen hyperhorea), a race which probably in-tergrades with the present species, breedingin Arctic America and Alaska and in wintercoming south to the central plains, or on thecoast to southern California,—and Ross SnowGoose [Chen rossii), the smallest of NorthAmerican geese, mainly a maritime race, breed-ing far away in the north, and often associat-ing with the Lesser Snow Goose, from which itmay be distinguished by the wart-like growthat the base of the upper mandible. This spe-cies has much the same range as its relative justnamed, though, as mentioned, Ross Goose ismore often taken on the coast. Neither ofthese small geese are taken on the Atlanticcoast. None of these birds are much given tocoming to CO o OO QinF-2: OcctuItJU THE WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE 251 THE WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. (Anser albifrons gambeli.) A rare bird all along the coast line of NewEngland, and in fact, on the entire Atlanticcoast, of more frequent occurrence in the West,especially on the Pacific coast in winter. Thisspecies breeds only in the far north, all acrosstne American continent, perhaps more abund-antly on the northwestern ranges. The sexes are identical in markings, whichare as follows: head and neck brownish; awhite patch around the base of upper mandible,with a blackish margin behind it. Above duskygray; below whitish, smirched on the breastwith black of varying extent and depth of color,from which marking they are sometimes calledSpeckle-bellies, a most classical crissum, upper tail coverts and sides ofthe rump are white. Bill pale pink with whitenail. The young of this species is somewhatdifferent: a darker bird, lacking the white onthe head and havin
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