18. BRANIA. IIQ* 



Branta leucopsis, Bann. Pr. Ac. Philad. 1871, p. 131 ; Ccmes, Key, 

 p. 283 (1872); id. Check-list, n. 483 (1873); id. B. N.-West, 

 p. 558 (1874) ; B., B., i<f R. Water-B. N. Am. i. p. 474 (1884) 

 Salvad. El. Ucc. Ital. p. 253, n. 351 (Italy) (1886) ; Ridgw. Man 

 N. Am. B. p. 117, n. 175 (1887) ; Rchmo. J.f. 0. 1890, p. 81 ; Bub. 

 Faun. Vert. Belff., Ois. ii. p. 385, pi. 242 (1891) ; Hartert, Kat 

 Vogehamml. p. 227, n. 3367 (1891). 



Anser (Brenthus) leucopsis, Rchnw. Orn. CentralbL 1882, p. 37 ; 

 id. Voff. zoul. Giirt. p. 66 (1882). 



AcluU male. Forehead, cheeks, and chin white ; a streak from the 

 beak to the eye, top of the head, nape, all the neck, and inter- 

 scapulars black ; rump bluish black ; upper tail-coverts white ; 

 breast and belly greyish white ; vent and under tail-coverts pure 

 white ; flanks and thighs tinged with grey in bars ; scapulars, 

 wing-coverts, and tertials lavender-grey, tipped with a crescent of 

 bluish black, and an extreme edge of white ; primaries and tail- 

 feathers almost black : bill, legs, toes, membranes, and claws black ; 

 irides dark brown. Total length 25'5-28 inches, wing 16, tail 5*5, 

 culmen 1-37, tarsus 2-3. 



Female. A little smaller than the male. 



Toung. The white of the cheeks varied with black feathers ; the 

 ends of the feathers on the back and of the wing-coverts tinged 

 with rufous ; the flanks barred with darker grey, and the legs less 

 black than in the adults. 



I have seen on the waters of Battersea Park, in London, a 

 living hybrid between this species and some kind of Goose (?) ; it 

 has the white on the head much more extended, the legs yellow, 

 and the general colouring paler brown than in B. leucopsis. 



Bah. Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, and Novaia Zemlia, where 

 probably it breeds ; passes on migration along the shores of Scan- 

 dinavia to winter in the Baltic, and on the coasts of Denmark, 

 HoUand, England, and Northern France ; seldom straggling to 

 Central and Southern Europe ; casually on the Atlantic coast of 

 North America. 



a. Ad. st. Great Britain. Purchased. 



b, c. (^ 2 ^d. st. Cumberland. Purchased. 



d. Ad. St. Devonshii-e. Col. Montagu CoU, 



e. Pull. St. Purchased. 



f-h. d 2 ad. sk. HoUand. H. J. Pike, Esq. [P.]. 



i. 2 ad. skeleton. Holland. H. J. Pike, Esq. [P.]. 

 k, I. Skeletons. 



m. Sternum. England. J. Ray, Esq. [P.]. 



6. Branta bernicla. 



Brent-Goose. 



Anser torquatus, Frisch, T'og. Deutschl. ii. Taf. 156. 



Brenta, Briss. Orn. vi. p. .304, pi. xxxi. (1760). 



Anas bernicla, Linn. S. N. i. p. 198, n. 13 (part.)(1766) ; Gm. S. N. 



i. 2, p. 513, n. 13 (178S) ; Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 844. n. 32 (1790) ; 



Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. ii. p. 424, u. 11 (1803) ; Wih. Am. Orn. 



■^•iii. pi. 72. f. 1 (1814); Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 531 (1815); id. 



op. cit. 2nd ed. ii. p. 824 (1820) ; Scorcsby, Ace. Arct. Reg. i. 



p. 527 (1820) ; Ranz. El. di Zool. iii. 9, p. 91 (1820) ; Werner, 



