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284. Branta bernicla glaucoga stra (Brelim) — THE PALE- 

 BREASTED BRENT GOOSE. 



Berxicla glaucogaster Brehiii, Handb. Naturg. Vog. Deutschl., p. 840 

 (1831 — German coast of Baltic Sea). 



Distribution. — British Isles. — Winter-visitor. In very few in- 

 stances definitely recorded, and distribution of the two forms is little 

 knoA\-n, but this form is said to occur with the typical but to be 

 scarcer south of the Humber (Saunders, ji. 412). Recorded Sol- 

 way and Yorks.. also Northumberland, where seems more abundant 

 than typical form (A. Chapman, Bird-life Borders, 2nd ed., p. 337) : 

 appears to be more common than typical form in south-east 

 Ireland (H.F.W.) 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Breeds in arctic islands of north-eastern 

 North America, west to about longitude 100°, and on west coast 

 of Greenland, in winter along Atlantic coasts of America, south to 

 Carolina and even Florida, casually inland, accidental in British 

 Columbia. A few occurrences recorded from Kolguev, but appar- 

 ently from memory only, and not from actual comparison, and from 

 Taimyr peninsula, whence one skin is known. 



[Branta bernicla nigricans (Lawr.) — THE BLACK BRENT 

 GOOSE. 



Anser nigricans Lawrence, Ann. Lyceum Xat. Hist. X. York, 1840, 

 p. 171, pi. XII (Xew Jersey). 



Bernicla nigricans, Giirney, Zool., 1908, pp. 121 and 123 : id., i.e., 1910 

 p. 123 ; Coburn, Rep. and Trans. X. Staffs. F. Club, xliv, pp. 121-5. 



Distribution. — British Isles. — Said by Mr. F. Coburn to have been 

 obtained as follows : Wash (Xorfolk), female, Jan, 15, 1907; male, 

 Feb., 1902; fourteen, Jan., 1909; Staffs., one, Nov. 23, 1895; 

 Warwick, one, Nov. 5, 1897 {ut supra and Brit. B., ii, pp. 27, iv, 

 pp. 27 and 107). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Breeds on arctic coast and islands of 

 western North America and in arctic zone of Siberia from the Lena 

 eastAvards to islands in Bering Sea. In winter along eastern coasts 

 of Asiatic continent and its islands to Japan, and along west coast 

 of America to lower California. Also recorded Maui (Hawaii).] 



! [XoTE. — The Canada Goose, Branta canadensis canadensis (L.), an 

 inliabitant of Xorth America, lias been domesticated in this country for more 

 tliian two centuries, but there is no evidence that truly wild birds have ever 

 v^ited us (c/. Yarrell, iv, p. 295 ; Saimders, p. 412).] 



[XoTE. — Many examples of the introduced Egyptian Goose, Chenalopex 

 cegypiiacvs (L.), an inhabitant of Africa and Palestine, have been killed in 

 various parts of the country (Yarrell, iv, p. 300 ; Saunders, p. 412). J 



[XoTE. — Examples, imdoubtedly introduced, of the Spur-winged Goose, 

 Plectro'pterus gambensis (L.), an inhabitant of tropical Africa, have been killed 

 in this country (Yarrell, iv, p. 304 ; Saunders, p. 412).] 



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