15a 



1. Laid ill confinement (Zool. Gardens, Salvin-Godman CVill. 



London). 

 1. Laid in contiuement (Newcastle). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Laid in continenient (Blackburn Crowley Bequest. 



Park, Lancashire). 



Branta bernicla {Litm.). 



Anser bernicla, T/iie/i. Fortj^/lf/iiz. ges. T'iif/, tab. Ixxv. fig. 2 (1845-54). 

 Bernicla brenta, Baedeher, Eier. Eur. Toy. tab. 78. fig. 3 (1855-63) ; 



Feilden, lhi.% 1877, p. 41i^ id. P. Z. S. 1877. p. 32; id. in Nares's 



yarr. Voij. Pol. 'Seff, ii. p. 216 (1878); Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. 



p. 389 (1877). 

 Anser brenta, Hewifsoii, E(/i/s of Brit. Birds, ii. p. ."89, pi. cix. fig. i 



(1856) : Seehohm, Brit. Birds, ill. p. 508, pi. 60 (1885) ; id. Eijfjs of 



Brit. Birds, p. 33, pi. 10. fig. i (1>!96). 

 Branta bernicla, iSalradori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 119 (1895) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-l. i. p. 213(1899). 



The eggs of the Brent Goose measure from 2-5<i to 3"2 iu length,, 

 and from 1-77 to l'9o in breadth. 



6. 



Discovery Bav, Grinnell Land 



(C. Hart). 

 Siimnonds' Island, Smith's Sound. 



Lat. 82^° N., 25th June [H. W. 



P\-Hdea). 

 Upernavick, Greenland, June 



{Feneker : Hargitt Coll.). 

 Spitsbergen. 

 Spitsbergen. 



Spitsbergen {Tristram Coll.). 

 Spitsbergen, end of .lune. 

 Spitsbergen, 2?th June (Nathorst 



E.rped.). 



XoY. H.M.S. ' Discovery. 

 Voy. H.M.S. ' Alert.' 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Branta nigricans {Lam-.). 



Bernicla nio-ricans, Baird, Brewer i^- Pid(/u: Water Birds N. Am. \. 



p. 47"! (1884). 

 Brailta nigricans, Xelsoii, Pejiort Xaf. Hist. Alaska, p. 87 (1887) ; 3Iac- 



Farlane, Proc. U.S. Nat. 3fus. xiv. p. 424 (1891) ; Salvadori. Cat. 



Bird.-^ B. M. xxvii. p. 128 (1895) ; S/iarpe, Hand-l. i. p. 213 (1899). 



The eggs of the Black Brent Goose measure from 2*73 to 3'05 in 

 length, and from 1-S6 to 1*9 in breadth. 



6. Anderson River, Arctic America, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Jnlv {R. MacFarlane: Henshaw 



Coll.). 

 3. Anderson River, July (P. Mac- Crowley Bequest. 



Far lane: Smiths. Inst.). 

 2. Arctic America (Smit/i.'s. Inst.). Salvin-(todmau Coll. 



