122 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
173. Brant. 
Branta bernicla (Lixn.) SCopoyi. 17609. 
Said ‘not to breed in Greenland lower than Lat. 70° but does so 
in great numbers in the Polar Sea. (Arct. Man.) This species 
breeds in numbers on the coasts and islands of Hudson Bay and 
the Arctic Sea, and is rarely seen in the interior. (Azchardson.) 
This species is a very abundant migrant on the whole Atlantic 
coast, filling at times the heads of all the bays and feeding on sea- 
weed, chiefly of the genus Ulva. It is quite frequent in the 
St. Lawrence and is known to ascend the Ottawa to thirty miles 
below the city. It is casual in Lake Ontario and said to be a rare 
migrant in western Ontario. Occasionally seen in Manitoba ; not 
seen to the west of that province. 
MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 
One specimen shot at St. John, New Brunswick, by Mr. Cham- 
berlain. 
174. Black Brant. 
Branta nigricans (LAWR.) BANNISTER. 1870. 
About the middle of May this goose makes its appearance 
about the mouth of the Yukon, and after a week or ten days 
passes northward to breed. Its breeding-ground lies consi- 
derably to the north, for during the cruise of the Corwen, in the 
summer of 1881, we first met it in the vicinity of Point Barrow, 
where the Eskimos brought many of them on board. (/Ve/son.) 
About the middle of May a great stream of these birds pours 
northward between St. Michael Island and Stewart Island. Few 
are seen in the faJl asthey then pass through the interior going 
south. (7Zzrner.) This bird appears at the end of the main spring 
migration of the water-fowl, but not in considerable numbers. A 
few remain to breed and are seen flying about the tundra during 
June. After the middle of August they begin to fly across the 
isthmus of Pergmiak coming west along the shore of Elson Bay, 
crossing to the ocean and turning southward along the coast. 
(Murdoch.) An abundant winter resident along the coasts of 
Vancouver Island and British Columbia. (Faznzn.) 
