BRENT GOOSE fel 
wegian coast, but being an isolated instance, it affords 
us little help as to the general geographical distribution 
of this species in the breeding-season. In cold weather 
this bird migrates along the sea-board of North Western 
Kurope, very few examples passing south of France. 
DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 
PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial—Top of head, throat 
and neck, black, contrasting strongly with the white under- 
parts ; front of head, cheeks and chin, white; black band 
running from the front of the eye to the base of the beak ; 
back and wings, delicate ‘french’ or ‘ lavender’ grey, barred 
with bluish-black and white; primaries and tail-feathers, 
black; upper and under tail-coverts, white ; breast and 
abdomen, also white; flanks, barred with pale grey. 
Adult female nuptial—sSimilar in plumage to the male. 
Adult winter, male and female.—Similar to the nuptial 
plumage. 
Immature, male and female.—Cheeks, spotted black and 
white; back and wing-feathers, edged with rufous; flanks 
barred darker than in the adult. 
Beak. Black. 
Frer. Black. 
IrtbES. Very dark brown. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
OTA LENGTH  ... ... 27 in. Eemale smaller. 
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BRENT GOOSE. Beruicla brenta (Pallas). 
Coloured Figures.—Gould, ‘ Birds of Great Britain,’ vol. v, plat; 
Dresser, ‘ Birds ot Europe,’ vol. vi, pl. 415, fig. 2; Lilford, 
‘Coloured Figures,’ vol. vii, pl. 26; Alpheraky, ‘ Geese 
of Hurope and Asia,’ pl. 16. 
The Brent Goose—often called the Sea Bernacle—is 
more exclusively marine in its habits than the last mentioned 
