Plate CCLXXXVI. Male and Female.
Tail of sixteen feathers, rounded; bill carmine-red, with the unguis
white; feet orange, claws white; head and neck greyish-brown; a white
band, margined behind with blackish-brown on the anterior part of the
forehead along the bill; general colour of back deep grey, the
feathers of its fore part broadly tipped with greyish-brown, the rest
with greyish-white; hind part of back deep grey; wings greyish-brown,
toward the edge ash-grey, as are the primary coverts, and outer webs
of the primaries; the rest of the primaries and secondaries
greyish-black, the latter with a narrow edge of greyish-white, the
former edged and tipped with white; breast, abdomen, lower
tail-coverts, sides of rump, and upper tail-coverts, white; the breast
and sides patched with brownish-black, on the latter intermixed with
greyish-brown feathers.
_Male_, 27-1/4, 60.
Through the interior of the Western and Southern States during winter,
as well as along the coast, from Massachusetts to Texas. Columbia
River. Breeds in the far north.
Anser albifrons, Bonap. Syn. p. 376.
Anser albifrons, Laughing Goose, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer.
v. ii. p. 456.
White-fronted Goose, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 346.
White-fronted Goose, Anser albifrons, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii.
p. 568.