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A. Jiyperhoreus. Snow Goose. 

 A. (Chen) Tii/jyerhoreus. Baird ! 

 D.c. Bill, feet and orbits deep or aurora red ; irides dark hair 

 brown ; eggs yellowish white. 



General colour white ; quills pitch black, their shafts white at 

 the base ; head glossed with ferruginous, extending sometimes to 

 the neck and even to the middle of the belly. 



Length 32 inches; alar expanse 33 inches (Nuttall). This spe- 

 cies.and the two following are extremely rare in this district, being 

 only birds of passage, through it, an occasional straggler only 

 being killed.' I never met with a specimen of this bird and I have 

 never seen but a single specimen of each of the following : 

 A. leucoj^sis. Barnacle Goose, 

 Anas leucojms of Linnaeus ! 

 Anas erythiopsis of Temminck ! 

 Bernicla or Clahis of Latham ! 

 , Bernicla (Leucajmreia) leucoj>sis. Baird ! 

 D.c. Bill, legs and feet black ; irides blackish brown. 

 Front sides of the head and throat pure white ; a small stripe 

 between the eye and bill, occiput, nape, neck, uppei- part of the 

 breast, tail and quills black ; feathers of the back scapulars and 

 wings of an ashy grey from their origins, with a wide band of 

 black towards their ends and all tipped with whitish grey ; lower 

 parts pure white, with the exception of the flanks which have a 

 cinereous tint. 



Length 25 to 27 inches (Nuttall). 



A. hernicla. Brant or Brent Goose. 

 A. torquatus of Veillot ! 

 Anas hernicla of Linnaeus and Latham ! 

 Bernicla [Bernicla^ hreiita. Baird ! 

 D.c. Bill, legs and feet black, the former shorter than the head ; 

 irides hazel. 



Head and neck with shoulders and breast greyish black; 

 quills, tertiaries, rump and tail greyish black ; back scapu- 

 lars and outer and inner wing coverts clove brown, marcrined 

 with yellowish grey ; a mottled spot on the side of the neck ; tail 

 coverts above and below, sides of the rump and vent, white • 

 belly yellowish grey; flanks narrowly barred with bluish grey 

 and white ; tail coverts as long as the tail, which is much rounded. 

 Length 24 inches; alar expanse 42 inches (Nuttall). 



