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upper parts brownish-grey, the feathers margined 
with light greyish-brown ; quills and primary coverts 
greyish-black; fore part of breast light brownish- 
grey, the feathers terminally margined with greyish- 
white ; abdomen and lower tail-coverts white ; sides 
grey; feathers rather broadly tipped with white. 
Length two feet ; wing fourteen inches and a half. 
Female rather smaller. 
The brant is not fond of the fresh lakes and streams, 
but prefers the ocean and its contiguous bays and 
lagoons ; it is far more abundant along the sea-coast 
than upon the western waters, and in fact I am not 
aware that I have ever killed one in the inland States. 
It responds to its peculiar note, stools well, and is 
often killed in great numbers on the South Bay of 
Long Island. 
Tue Swan. 
Genus Cygnus, Meyer. 
Generic Distinctions.—Bill longer than the head, 
higher than broad at the base, depressed and a little 
widened towards the end; upper mandible, rounded, 
with the dorsal line sloping; lower mandible flat- 
tened, with the angle very long, and rather narrow ; 
nostrils placed near the ridge; head of moderate 
size, oblong, compressed; neck extremely long and 
slender; body very large, compact, depressed ; feet 
short, stout, placed a little behind the centre of the 
body ; tarsi short ; wings long, broad ; tail very short, 
graduated. 
