12 BIRD NAMES. [No. 5. 



BRANT. Known in various parts of tlie West as PRAIRIE BRANT, 

 SPECKLED BELLY, and SPECKLED BRANT, and very commonly 

 as BRANT simply, this being, in other words, the brant where 

 hunters are unfamiliar with Eastern bird, Branta hernicla (No. 3.), 

 or with Pacific coast variety, B. nigr^icans. 



In a letter from Mr. A. B. Pearson, of San Diego, Cal., this 

 species is referred to as the "YELLOW-LEGGED GOOSE or GRAY 

 BRANT," and spoken of as " fairly plentiful" there "from Novem- 

 ber to March." 



