126 ANATIDiE. 



Anser (Brenthus) nificollis, RcTinio. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 37 ; id, 



Voff. zool. Giirt. p. 65 (1882). 

 Branta ruficoUis, Sahad. El. Ucc. ltd. p. 254, n. 353 (1886); 



Rchmc. J. f. O. 1890, p. 81 ; Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 227 



(1891). 

 Ptocas ruficoUis, Seine Sf Hchnw. Nomencl. Mils. Sein. p. 342 



(1890). 



Adult male. Entire crown and hind neck black ; the black of the 

 crown extends through the eye to the chin and throat, leaving a 

 large round white patch between the eye and the bill ; on the ear- 

 coverts a chestnut angular patch, surrounded with white, ending in 

 a white band down the sides of the neck ; neck and upper breast 

 rich chestnut, surrounded below by a white narrow band ; back, 

 rump, lower breast, and upper abdomen black ; upper tail-coverts, 

 lower abdomen, and under tail-coverts white ; flanks white, with 

 black bands at the tip of the feathers ; wings brown-black, the 

 upper coverts with pale edgings, which on the middle and greater 

 wing-coverts form two greyish bands ; tail black : " bill almost 

 black ; irides hazel ; legs and feet dark brown, almost black " 

 {Saunders). Total length about 22 inches, wing 14, tail 6, bill 1, 

 tarsus 2"1. 



Adidt female. Similar to the male, only somewhat smaller. 



Immature bird. The black replaced by dark brown, the auricular 

 patch brown, with some rufons tinge, the neck and breast reddish 

 bufi" ; tips of the rectrices white. 



Hah. Ob and Yenesei valleys, where it breeds ; "Western Siberia, 

 Northern Turkestan, and Caspian Sea, where it winters ; accidental 

 in Europe and also in Egypt, 



a. 2 ad. sk. Kuschowat, Ob, Sept. Dr. 0. Finsch [C.]. 



b, c. cJ ad. et Lenkoran, Jan. {Henke). Seebohm Coll. 

 imm. sk. 



d. 2 ad. St. Europe (Holland ?). Zoological Society. 



e. Ad. St. Berwick. Bullock's CoU. 



19. NESOCHEN. ^j^ 



Nesochen, Salvad. MS. N. sandvicensis. 



Range. Confined to the Sandwich Islands. 



1. Nesochen sandvicensis. 



" Geese .... not unlike the Chinese Geese," Ellis, Narr. Voy. ii. 



p. 143 (1782). _ 

 Anser sandvicensis, Vigors, Xist of Anim. in the Gard. Z. S. ed. 11, 



p. 4 (June 1833) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 373 (1872). 

 Bernicla sandvicensis, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1833, p. 65 ; Hep. of Coune. 



Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 13; Stanlei/, P. Z. S. 1834, pp. 41-43, 81; 



Jard. ^- Selb. III. Orn. ser. 2, pi. viii. (1836) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. 



B. ui. p. 607, n. 10 (1844) ; Hartl. Erst. Nachtr. p. 19, n. 214 



(1846); Rchnb. Syn. Av., Natatores, t. 99. ff. 2355-56 (1850); 



