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Identifier: historyofgamebir1912forb (find matches)
Title: A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929 Beecroft, W. I. (Willey Ingraham), b. 1870, illustrator Parker, Basil W., former owner Job, Herbert Keightley, 1864-1933, photographer Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture
Subjects: Game and game-birds Game and game-birds Birds Birds
Publisher: Boston : Wright & Potter printing company, state printers

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^mm&i •WFmMi Length. — About 25 to 28 inches. Adult. — Back grayish brown; head, upper part of neck and rump bluishgray; wings same, shading to black at ends; flanks grayish brown;feathers tipped with pale brown; tail dusky, edged with white; underparts white; bill and feet purplish red. Young. — Like adult, except head and neck dark grayish brown; chin onlywhite. Range. — Eastern North America. Breeding range unknown, but proba-bly interior of northern Ungava; winters from Nebraska and southernIllinois south to coasts of Texas and Louisiana; rare or casual in migra-tion in California, and from New Hampshire to Florida, Cuba and theBahamas. History.There is no reason to believe that this western species wasever more than casual here. A young female, shot at Gloucester,October 20,187G, is now in the collection of the Boston Societyof Natural History.1 i Jeffries, Win. A.: Auk, 1889, p. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 175 WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE (Anser albifrons gambeli). KALE

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