Canada Goose, Anas canadensis, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 52.
Anser canadensis, Bonap. Syn. p. 377.
Anser canadensis, Canada Goose, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 468.
Canada Goose, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 349.
Canada Goose. Anser canadensis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 1; v. v. p. 607.
379. 2. Anser Hutchinsii, Richardson. Hutchins's Goose.
Plate CCLXXVII. Adult.
Tail of sixteen feathers; bill, feet, and claws black; head and two upper thirds of neck glossy black; a large subtriangular patch of white on each side of the head and neck; general colour of the upper parts brownish-grey, the feathers margined with paler, of the lower parts pale greyish-brown, margined with yellowish-grey; abdomen and lower tail-coverts white; hind part of back brownish-black; primary quills and tail-feathers deep brown.
Adult, 25, 50.
From New Jersey to Maine, during winter. Breeds in the Arctic Regions. Columbia River. Abundant.
Anser Hutchinsii, Hutchins's Bernacle Goose, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 470.
Hutchins's Goose, Anser Hutchinsii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 526.
380. 3. Anser leucopsis, Bechst. Bernacle Goose.
Plate CCXCVI. Male and Female.
Tail very short, rounded, of sixteen feathers; bill, feet, and claws black; anterior parts of head, including a broad space above the eye, the sides of the head and the throat, white; feathers margining the bill, and a line from the bill to the eye, curving beneath the lower eyelid, and running along the upper, brownish-black; neck all round glossy bluish-black, of which colour are the anterior feathers; the scapulars, and the wing-coverts, towards their extremities, while the bases are ash-grey, and their terminal margins white; rump and tail-feathers deep black; quills greyish-black, darker towards the tips, the outer webs more or less tinged with ash-grey; upper and lower tail-coverts, and sides of rump, pure white.