120 GEESE.

young corn, or cereals. When wounded, they dive readily and, with their body just. below the surface of the water and only the bill ex« posed, head for the shore, where they attempt to hide in the vegetation. In migrating, the flock is formed in a V—shaped wedge, the lead, in; is said, being taken by an old gander. KEY TU THE SPECIES.

I. \Vhole head or forehead white. A. Bill yellowish. u. Forehead and feathers at the base of bill white. 171/1. AM. \Vlll'l'lifl-‘RONTED Goosr: (Ad). 12. Head and neck white or grayish, sometimes tinged with rusty. bl. Primaries black, rest of plumage white. 169. L} R SNOW GoosE. 16911. GREATER Sxow GOOSE. Ifi. Back grayish brown, rump and belly whitish, wing—emerts and tertials widely margined with white. . . . 169. Lassen SNow GOOSE (1111.). 16941. GREATER Sxow Goosr: 11111.). M. Back grayish brown, rump, belly. and wing-coverts gray, the lat- ter not conspicuously margined with white. 100.1. BLI'H Geesr: (Ada.

B. Bill black, throat and sides of the head white, leres black. 175. BARNACLE Goosz.

II. Head and neck brown, bill yellow or yellowish. A. Nail of bill black, rump l‘useous. 1714. AM. “'nl'ria—Fnoxntn Goosr. (1111.). I)’. Nail ofbill yellow, rump gray . . . . . 113th]. BLl'L‘ Goose tinny. III. Head blaek or brownish black, bill blaelt. A. Throat white . . . 172. CA‘NADA (ioosE. 17:241. III-Teums‘s Goosg. 15’. Throat black or brownish blaek, neek speekled with white. (1. Belly white . . , . . . . . . . . . i . . . 178. BRANT. b. Belly brownish gray . . . . . . . . . . 174. BLACK BRANT.

169. Chen hyperborea. (HIM). LESSER SNow Goose. Ad.——En- tire plumage, except, the primaries with their eoverts. white; primaries blaek, their bases and eoverts ashy. 1m.—“ Ilead, neek, and upper parts pale gray- ish, the feathers of the latter with whitish edges and (espeeially wing—eorerts and tertials) striped medially with darker; rump7 upper tail—eoverts, tail. and lower parts plain white. L., 23'00—28'00; W., 14604700; 1%., 105—230; Tait, 9'80—3'25 ” (Ridgw).

Range—Western North America, breeding in Alaska and migrating south— ward to the Gulf; rarely found east of the His. imii.

Iii/gs, uniform dirty, chalky white, 3‘40 x 2'20 (B.v IL, and 1%.).

16911.. C. h. nivalis (Font). GREATER SNow (i00812.!Iit'st'tnld0h' the preceding in eolor7 but is larger. L, wrotl—SSUO; “K, 17'35717‘50; 1%., 2'57)— 2'70 ; Tan, 3'15~8'5l) (Ridgw).

Kenya—Eastern North America. breeding in the far north (exact breedA ing range unknown): winters from Chesapeake Bay to Cuba; rare on the Atlantic coast north of Virginia.