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CHLOEPHAG-A CANAG-ICA.
ALEUT IAN GOOSE.
BERNICLA PICT A. P allas. Zool. Ross. Asiat.,
CHLOEPHAGA CANAGIOA Eyton Mon. Anat.
T his v e ry handsome and singularly-marked Goose is a native of o u r Northwest Coast, and of the islands stretching away to the
Asiatic shore. It is, I believe, abundant among the Aleutian Group, and has been received at the Smithsonian Institute from the
Pacific coast, near Vancouver Island, and also observed in British Columbia.
Prom its conspicuous plumage, it would not likely be passed unnoticed by any of the adventurous naturalists who have visited those
. probably more particularly a sea-bird, obtaining subsistence from the ocean,
latitudes, it may approach the mainland of either hemisphere but seldom,
ever been recorded of its habits; but the absence of any published accounts froi
s one of the many disadvantages the ornithologist labors under when treating 01
i the low islands
which ; full history
little-known
portions of our continent, and, i
which abound in those north
I regret that nothing li
of a species might be given
birds.
Head and back-part of neck,. white. Chin, throat, sides, and fore-part of neck, blackish-brown, with a few indistinct white spots
on the sides of the neck. Rest of plumage, bluish, each feather tipped with white, anterior to which is a narrow band of black.
Primaries, brown. Tail, white. Bill, legs, and feet, reddish-yellow.