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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

831. Branta hutchinsi

831. HUTCHINS’ GOOSE.
BRANTA HUTCHINSI.
Branta hutchinsi (Richardson), Faun. Bor, Am. ii. p. 470 (1831) ; (Audub.) B. Am. vi. p. 198, pl. 377 ; Salvadori, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxvii. p. 114 ; Tacz. F. O. Sib. O. p. 1109 ; Ridgway, p. 117 ; (Seebohm), B. Jap. Emp. p. 239 ; B. leucopareia (Brandt) Bull. Sc. Acad. St. Petersb, i. p. 37 (1836).
Shi-jiu-kara-gan, Jap.
Ad. Head and neck black ; chin, throat, and cheeks white ; upperparts brown with paler margins, except on the back ; rump black ; under parts brown, the lower neck whitish, the vent and under tail-coverts pure white ; bill and legs blackish plumbeous ; iris dark brown. Culmen 2.3, wing 16.0, tail 5.5, tarsus 3.25 inch.
Hab. Arctic and subarctic America, in winter south to Mexico ; Eastern Siberia, the Kurile and Commander Islands ; Japan in winter. In habits it does not differ from B. bernicla, and its nest and eggs also resemble those of that species, the latter measuring about 3.18 by 2.18.

BookTitle: 
A Manual Of Palaearctic Birds
Reference: 
Dresser, Henry Eeles. A Manual of Palaearctic Birds. Vol. 2. 1903.
Title in Book: 
831. Branta hutchinsi
Book Author: 
H. E. Dresser
CatNo: 
831
Year: 
1903
Page No: 
595
Common name: 
Hutchins’ Goose
M_ID: 
298
M_CN: 
Cackling Goose
M_SN: 
Branta hutchinsii
Volume: 
Vol. 2
id: 
10384

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