Plate CCI. Male and Female.
Tail of eighteen feathers; bill, feet, and claws black, head and two
upper thirds of neck glossy black; forehead, cheeks, and chin, tinged
with brown; lower eyelid white; a broad band of white across the
throat to behind the eye; rump and tail-feathers black; general colour
of the rest of upper parts greyish-brown, wing-coverts shaded into
ash-grey, all the feathers terminally edged with very pale brown;
lower part of neck passing to greyish-white, which is the general
colour of the lower parts, unless in old birds where it is buff, with
the exception of the abdomen, which is pure white, the sides, which
are pale brownish-grey, the feathers tipped with white, and the lower
wing-coverts, which are also pale brownish-grey; margins of rump and
upper tail-coverts pure white. Female with the tints somewhat duller.
_Male_, 43, 65. _Female_, 41.
Breeds sparingly from the Mississippi to Nova Scotia; abundantly in
Labrador, and farther north. In the interior, on the Missouri, and
across to the Columbia River. Abundant. Migrates far south in winter.
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.