IV ANATIDAE I 
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with cinnamon head, have in both sexes chestnut and black 
plumage, the wing being as in C. magellanica, the bill black, the 
feet black and orange. C. melanoptera will nest in holes in cliffs. 
countries, with plumbeous, and C. rubidiceps, ot the Falklands, 
Sub-fam. 7. Anserinae-—In this group the female resembles 
the male. Nesochen sandvicensis, of the Sandwich Islands, has a 
black head and throat, brown plumage barred with whitish and 
black, and buff sides of the neck with black stripes. It mhabits 
craters and “ lava-flows ” on hills, and is fond of berries. The mem- 
bers of the genus Bernicla, or Black Geese, are grey and black, 
with a varying amount of white, and have black bills and feet. 2. 
brenta, the Brent Goose, our commonest winter species, is brownish- 
black, with darker head, neck, and breast, white tail-coverts and 
lateral neck-patches. It is found in the Arctic Regions, and migrates 
as far as the Mediterranean and the Mississippi. It feeds by day 
in shallows on grass-wrack, laver, crustaceans, and insects, has 
a loud note, and lays about four cream-coloured eggs. From 
western Arctic America to the Lena occurs the form 2. nigricans 
with white collar and black belly. &. /euwcopsis, the Bernacle Goose, 
migrating to the 
same districts as B. 
brenta, abounding on 
our west coasts in 
winter, and occupy- 
ing in summer 
Arctic Europe and 
Greenland, where it 
is supposed to breed, 
has nested in one 
place in Norway. 
The front of the head 
is white, the crown 
and neck are black, 
the mantle is laven- 
der-grey marked 
with black and 4, 95 
white, ‘the under 
parts are greyish. Unlike the Brent Goose, it feeds at night. 
£. canadensis, of temperate North America, wintering down to 
Mexico, has a triangular white patch on each side of the black 
.—Red-breasted Goose. Bernicla rujicollis. x}, 
