. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . and and Canadian shores. Immense flocks are met with on theGreat Plains. Note. — The Lesser Snow Goose {Chen hyperborea), the Westernform of this species, which breeds in Alaska, is found in winteroccasionally in southern Illinois, and casually in New England. BLUE GOOSE. BLUE WAVEY. Chen c^rulescens. Char. Back grayish brown; head, neck, and rump white; wingsbluish gray, shading to black on ends ; tail dusky; under parts white ;bill and feet purplish red. Length about 25 inches. Nest ajid Eggs. Unknown. After much contention
. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . and and Canadian shores. Immense flocks are met with on theGreat Plains. Note. — The Lesser Snow Goose {Chen hyperborea), the Westernform of this species, which breeds in Alaska, is found in winteroccasionally in southern Illinois, and casually in New England. BLUE GOOSE. BLUE WAVEY. Chen c^rulescens. Char. Back grayish brown; head, neck, and rump white; wingsbluish gray, shading to black on ends ; tail dusky; under parts white ;bill and feet purplish red. Length about 25 inches. Nest ajid Eggs. Unknown. After much contention and relegation for a time to the Hypo-thetical List, under the supposition that it was the young of theSnow Goose, this has been admitted as a valid species Its breeding area lies along the shores of Hudson Bay, and itswinter home is on the Gulf coast, whence it migrates chiefly alongthe valley of the Mississippi. Mr. William Dutcher reports thatthe bird is an accidental visitor to Long Island. In habits the Blue Goose does not differ materially from AMERICAN WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. LAUGHING ALBIFRONS GAMBELI. Char. Upper parts brownish ash, the feathers paler on the edges;forehead and rump white ; wings and tail dusky; under parts brownishgray, blotched with black; bill yellow, with white nail ; legs and feetorange. Length about 30 inches. Nest. 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. Eggs. 5-7 ; dull greenish yellow (?); 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
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