ORDER ANSERES. 87 
Branta bérnicla (LINN Us). 
RanaE.— Arctic islands and coasts of the Northern Hemisphere, 
south in winter to southern Europe and eastern United States. 
a. [Branta bernicla bernicla. Extralimital.] 
b. Branta bernicla glaucogastra (BreHM). Brant. [173a.] 
Bernicla glaucogaster Bream, Handbuch Voégel Deutschl., 1831, 849. 
(German coast of Baltic Sea.) 
RancGeE.— Northern Hemisphere. Breeds on Arctic islands north of lati- 
tude 74° and west to about longitude 100°, and on the whole west coast of 
Greenland; winters on the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts south to North 
Carolina, rarely to Florida; has been recorded in the interior from Manitoba, 
Ontario, Colorado, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Louisiana; 
accidental in British Columbia and Barbados. 
Branta nigricans (LAWRENCE). Black Brant. [174.] 
Anser nigricans LAWRENCE, Ann. Lyc. N. H. N. Y., IV, 1846, 171, pl. 
xii. (Egg Harbor, N. J.) 
RancE.— Western North America. Breeds on the Arctic coast and 
islands from Point Barrow east to near mouth of Anderson River, 
north probably to Melville Island; common on Siberian coast, Chukchi 
Peninsula, and west to New Siberian Islands; winters on the Pacific 
coast from British Columbia south to San Quintin Bay, Lower Cali- 
fornia, in the interior of Oregon and Nevada, and on the Asiatic coast 
south to Japan; recorded as a straggler to Massachusetts, New York, 
and New Jersey. 
Branta leucépsis (BECHSTEIN). Barnacle Goose. [175.] 
Anas leucopsis BECHSTEIN, Orn. Taschenb. Deutschl., II, 1803, 424. 
(Germany.) 
Rance.— Northern part of the Old World. Breeds in northern 
part of Eastern Hemisphere as far north as Spitzbergen; winters in 
Great Britain and western Europe, occurring south to Spain; occurs 
in Iceland, and in migration on both coasts of Greenland; recorded 
from Ungava, Ontario, Quebec, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, 
and North Carolina. 
