ANATID, GEESE.—GEN. 249, 250. 283 
249. Genus PHILACTE Bannister. 
Painted Goose. Emperor Goose. Wavy bluish-gray, with lavender or 
_ lilac tinting, and sharp black crescentic marks; head, nape and tail white, 
_ former often washed with amber-yellow; throat black, white-speckled ; 
tarsus 38. N.W. coast; abundant at mouth of Yukon. Chloephaga canagico. 
Sep. (08; ExL., pl. 45; Dauu., Trans. Chicago Acad. i, 296; Philacte 
CANAGICA. 
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a 
Fig. 183. Emperor Goose. 
250. Genus BRANTA Scopoli. 
*,* Bill and feet black; head and neck black, with white spaces. 
Barnacle Goose. Blackish; tail coverts, sides of rump, forehead, sides 
of head, and throat, white; interscapulars and wing coverts bluish-gray ; 
under parts plumbeous-white ; 28; wing 17; tarsus 23; bill 14. Europe; 
_ very rare or merely casual in N. Am. 
Bo., Am. Nat. ii, 49 (Hudson’s Bay) ; 
Lawr., ibid. v, 10 (North Carolina). 
Norr., ii, 355; Avp., vi, 200, pl. 378; 
arentoo. . . %- . .  LEUCOPSIS. 
* Brant Goose. Head, neck, body 
anteriorly, quills and tail, black; a 
small patch of white streaks on the 
middle of the neck, and usually white 
_ touches on the under eyelid and chin; 
upper tail coverts white ; back brown- 
_ ish-gray ; under parts the same, but paler, and fading into white on the lower 
_ belly and crissum; black of jugulum well defined against the color of the 
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FG. 184. a, Brant Goose; b, var. nigricans. 
