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brownish-gray goose, with black head, neck, and breast, except 

 some white scratchings on the sides of the neck just below the 

 head. The lower breast is ashy, fading to white on the belly 

 and longer tail coverts ; the wing quills and tail feathers are 

 almost black. The young has less white on the neck, but the 

 secondary wing quills are tipped with white. These geese fly 

 in a rather compact mass without the leader so characteristic 

 with the Canada goose. 



Length, 2M-30| ; wing, 12^-L3|- ; tail, 4^ ; tarsus, 2^ ; culmen, 1^1|. 

 Northern portions of the northern hemispliere, in North America chiefly 

 on the Atlantic coast. Rare away from salt water. 



8. Black Brant (174. Brdnta nigricans). — Like the last, but 

 the lower breast and itpper belly are much darker, almost 

 blackish, and the white 

 scratchings are found 

 both on the sides and 

 front of the neck. 



Length, 22-29 ; wing, 13; 

 tail, 4^ ; tarsus, 2^ ; cul- 

 men, li. Arctic and west- 

 ern North America; migrat- 

 ing south to lower California ; 

 casual in the Atlantic States. 



9. Barnacle Goose (175. 



Brdnta leucdpsis). — An 



Old World goose with 



nearly the whole head 



white to the neck, except 



a black loral stripe. It 



is rarely found on our 



shores. 



Length, 24-28 ; wing, 15- 

 17 ; tail, b\ ; tarsus, 2| ; cul- 

 men, If. 



10. Fulvous Tree-duck (178. Dendrocygna fi'dva). — An ex- 

 treme southern, small, duck-like, yellowish-brown goose with 



Barnacle Goose 



