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.