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BERNICLA BRENTA. THE BLACK-FACED 

 BERNICLE-GOOSE. 



BRENT GOOSE. BRAND GOOSE. BARNACLE. BLACK-HEADED BARNACLE. 



RING-NECKED BARNACLE. CLATTER GOOSE. HORRA GOOSE. 



WARE GOOSE. 



Anas Bernicla. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 198. 



Anas Bernicla. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 844. 



Brent Goose. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Supplt. 



Oie cravant. Anas Bernicla. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 824. 



Oie cravant. Anser Bernicla. Temm. Man. d'Orn. IV. 522. 



Brent Goose. Anser Brenta Selb. Illustr. II. 271. 



Anser torquatus. Brent Bernicle. Jen. Brit. Vert., An. 224. 



Bernicla Brenta. Bonap. Comp. List. 56. 



Male twenty-four inches long ; bill small, much shorter 

 than the head, an inch and a half in length, black ; tarsus two 

 inches and a quarter long, black ; head and neck glossy black ; 

 a 'patch of white, dotted with black, on each side of the upper 

 part of the neck ; the upper parts of the body brownish- grey, 

 the lower greyish -white, the sides barred with ash-grey. 

 Female similar, but smaller. 



Male in Winter.— The "Brent Goose " is much inferior 

 in size to the " Bernicle Goose," and easily distinguishable 

 from it by its having the head entirely black. In form and 

 proportions, however, it is very similar to that species. The 

 body is full ; the neck rather long, slender toward its upper 

 part ; the head small, oblong, and compressed. 



The bill is much shorter than the head, of greater height 

 than breadth at the base, somewhat conical, considerably 

 compressed, at the end a little depressed ; the upper mandible 

 with the dorsal line nearly straight and sloping, the ridge 

 flattened at the base, presently narrowed and convex, the 

 sides sloping, the edges almost straight, soft and marginate, 

 with about twenty-five oblique lamellae, of which the outer 



