644 APPENDIX A. 



No. ii. 



BRANT. 

 A. O. U. No. 17.*. Branta bernicla (Linn.). 



Description. - Aduit: Head and neck all around and fore breast (all around, i. e., with 



ding lateral and d narrow stripe or broken half-neck- 



• of neck; lower belly and under tail-coverts well around on sides 



to include lateral third and longer feathers of uppei .<;:-. pure white; remaining 



own, darker or back, lighter on belly; the feathers 



id some on wing-coverts tipped with dull whit< . wing-quills and tertials blacken- 



rd tips; tail Mack. Inn mostly concealed by \\ lit' ■ and feel black. In 



■ ii from which i hi - de-ei i]>ii< m i- made, a male in full plumage taken in Labrador. 



oi breasi does nol fade to white on lower bell] R g\ al.) but contrasts 



abruptly with it, al the poim of insertion of the legs, as well as with the black of fore-breast. 



i l.ni with less white "ii the sides of the neck and wing-coverts, and 



tipped with white" (Chapman). Length 24.00-30.00 (609.6-762.); wing 13.00 



(127.); bill 1.50 (38.1); tarsus 2.10-2.40 (53-3-6i-) (R-) — the Columbus 



specimen 2.60 (66 1 



Recognition Marks. — "Brant size"; dark coloration. — sooty black on head and neck, 

 dark fuscous elsewhere, with con>pieuous white of lower belly .and tail-coverts. 



Nest, on cliffs or sandy beaches, of moss and grasses, lined with copious feathers and 

 down. /;;,,.,.>. 4 '>. ucamy or dirty white. Ay. size, 2. 70 x I. So (68.6 x 45.71. 



(ieneral Range. "Northern parts of the northern hemisphere; in North America chiefly 



on the Atlantic Coast; rare in the interior or away from salt water." Probably the true 



much less common in North America than formerly supposed 



Supposed Occurrence in Ohio. — Doubt fully admitted to Wheaton's list on the basis 



of general statement- by Kirtland and Langdon. On May 30th. 1902. Professor Lynds 



I came upon a bird in the Licking Reservoir which we had every reason to believe 



was a Brant, but whether of this species or the next it is impossible to say. 



No. 12. 

 \\ HITE-BELUED BRANT. 

 A. 0. U No. 173a. Branta bernicla glaucogastra iBrehm). 



Description. — Similar to preceding species but with more white below. "It has the 



below the breast almost pure white, and the white on the sides of the neck does 



nol meel in from" (,,, diMinguiMicd from /.'. nigricans of the Pacific Coast) (Seebohm). 



(ieneral Range. Inipctfertlv distinguished a- > ei from that of B. bernicla. "Extreme 



northern part of the northern hemisphere, including Arctic America, migrating southward 



Supposed Range in Ohio. Ii is possible that all alleged Brant records for the state 

 this impi 1 fi ctlj known subspecies. 



No. 13. 



FLORIDA CORMOR W'T. 

 \ 11 U. No. [20a. Phalacrocorax dilophus floridanus (And.). 

 Description. Quite similar to /'. dilophus, but decidedh smaller. Length 22.00-30.00 



!.): wing 11. 7; (211S.51: tail h.m I 152.4); bill 2.18 (55.4) ; tarsus 2.4= 

 Recognition Marks.— Brant size; as in preceding species; smaller. 

 Nest, and Eggs not peculiar. \v. -ia ..f . —-, j.y, x 1.45 (50.9 x 36.8). 

 (ieneral Range.— South Atlantic and Gulf States, northward in the Mississippi Valley 



1 Illinois. 

 Supposed Occurrence in Ohio.— The birds which former!} bred al the Grand Reser- 

 n ferred by Messrs. Langdon, Durj and others to this subspecies, but the evidence 

 is not clear. 



