A NA TID^E — A NSERIN.E : GEESE. 



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B. ber'nicla glaucogas'tra (Old Euglisli hernekJce, Latinized bemaca about 1 175, and found 

 in uncounted forms in various languages ; ultimate origin and meaning unknown. The cir- 

 riped Lepas anutifera is said by some to have been named barnacle from the bird — not the 

 bird from the cirriped. See Century Diet. p. 455, and Newton's Diet. p. 31. — Gr. yXavKos, 

 glauJcos, glaucous, and yaarrip, gaster, belly. Fig. G31.) BuANT GooSE. Brent Goo.se. 

 Brant. Brent. Black Brant (in distinction from White Brant as applied to Waveys 

 of the genus Chen). Horra Goose (Shetland). Rode, Rood, Road, Rott, or Rat 

 Goose (all from German Botgans : Newton.) Clatter Goose. Crocker. Qulnckor. 

 QuiNK. Adult $ 9 : Bill, feet, and claws black ; iris brown. Head and neck all around, 

 and a little of fore part of body, glossy-black, well defined against color of breast; on each 

 side of neck a small patch of white streaks ; fre(juently also white touches on eyelids and 

 chin. Breast light 

 ashy-gray, beginning 

 abruptly from the 

 black, fading on belly 

 and crissum into 

 white, shaded along 

 sides of body. Up- 

 per parts brownish - 

 gray ; feathers of dor- 

 sal region with paler 

 gray tij)S ; rump 

 darker ; upper tail- 

 coverts white. Tail- 

 feat h ers , w i n g- q u i 1 1 s , 

 and primary coverts 

 blackish ; inner ([uills 

 wliitish toward base. 

 Young : Similar; 

 general cast of plu- 

 mage browner, with Fig. 031. -common Bnant. (From Lewis.) 



more pronounced white edging on the wing-coverts, and tips of secondaries quite white ; less 

 distinction between colors of brtiast and belly ; black of head and neck rather brownish-dusky, 

 and the patch of white streaks slight or wanting. Length 24.00; extent 48.00; wing 13.00; 

 tail 4.50; 1)ill 1.33; tarsus 2.25; middle toe and claw about the same. Europe. In North 

 America, cliieHy along the Atlantic coa.st, being more maritime thau" other U. S. Geese, but 

 also found inland on the great lakes and rivers. U. S. only in winter and during the migra- 

 tions, when abundant. Breeds only within the Arctic Circle, on our coasts from Greenland 

 W. to tlie Parry Islands, and as far nortli as our e.Kplorers have gone. According to Feilden it 

 n>aches hit. 82° 30' early in June ; nest on ground, of grass and moss, lined with down; eggs 

 late in June, 4 or 5 in number, 2.05-2.87 X 1-75-1.95, creamy white, finely granulated, sliijhtly 

 glossy, indistinguishable from those of li. leKCoptiis. Moult late in July, when the birds are 

 unaltle to tiy. Our I)ird is the lightest-bellied form, entitled to rank as Branta bi'inichi ghm- 

 cogastra. CouES, Auk, A])r. 18i)7, p. 207; A. O. U. Suppl. List, Auk, Jan. l.-!»!». p. I(t5, 

 No. 173^/ (Bernicln brenta of 2d-4th eds. of Key). 



B. iii^'rieaiis. (Lat. nigricans, being blackisli. Fiy;. O-'M.) Ulaik r>i;.\Nr (as distin- 

 guished from the foregoing species). Similar to the last; darker above; black of jnmihnn 

 extending over mo.st of under parts, fading on belly and crissum, without abrupt line of demarca- 

 tion on l)reast ; white neck-patches usually larger and meeting in front, thus making a clean 

 white collar oidy ojx'n at the back of tlie neck ; vent and crissum conspicuously white in con- 



