. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada [microform] : based on Nuttall's Manual. Water-birds; Water-birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques; Ornithologie. I ,. â i -I AMKRIC AX WHirK-FROXTED (lOOSi:. LAUGHING GOOSE. AnSKR Char. Upper parts hnnvnish ash, the feathers paler on the edges; forehead and rump white ; wings and tail dusky; under parts brownish gray, blotched with black; bill yellow, with white nail; legs and feet orange. Length about 30 inches. AVsf. Amid rank grass and made of coarse herbage and lined with gra
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada [microform] : based on Nuttall's Manual. Water-birds; Water-birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques; Ornithologie. I ,. â i -I AMKRIC AX WHirK-FROXTED (lOOSi:. LAUGHING GOOSE. AnSKR Char. Upper parts hnnvnish ash, the feathers paler on the edges; forehead and rump white ; wings and tail dusky; under parts brownish gray, blotched with black; bill yellow, with white nail; legs and feet orange. Length about 30 inches. AVsf. Amid rank grass and made of coarse herbage and lined with grass and feathers, â sometimes a mere depression at the summit of a grassy mound or in the sand on the bank of a river, lined with feathers and down. â ^.W'f- 5-7; creamy white; X The Wliite-fronted (loose breeds chiefly in the interior of the continent on tiie skirts of the forest portions of snlvarctic regions, and winters in Mexico and tlie West Indies. During the migra- tions this (loose is rare along the Atlantic coast, but plentiful on the plains, and quite common about the dreat Lakes. Numbers of this species nest in Cireenland. but tliey are said to l)e of the Kuropean race. â true albifrons. â and thev proliabiy migrate .southward by the way of Iceland and the Iiritish Isles. 'he name of Laughing Goose is derived from tlie call, which is )ud and trumpet-like. It sounds something like 7oah. loah. -rcni/i. â¢iui/i, repeated Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chamberlain, Montague, 1844-1924; Nuttall, Thomas. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada. Boston : Little, Brown
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