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Ber.: cheeks, forehead, and throat white; crown, neck, and 
breast black; above blue grey, with the margins of the feathers 
lighter, within which there is a line of black; tail and quills black ; 
tail coverts and the under surface white; the flanks with some dark 
bars of grey. 
ANSEF WiGUCOPSIS cca seve vee s'ss ase Bechs. Nat. Deut. 4. 921. 
ANAS Leucopsis s.00s0eere0c00e00 Temm. Man. 2. 828. 
PROTOS oc ask hme gine ocak ar Penn. Arct. Zool. 2 N. 479. . 
Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 466. 
Ee BERN’ oe SEs awas s Buff. :O13.'9.:9. Bs fe Gs 
An arctic species, and, like most of its genus, is only a winter 
visitant in these islands; is easily domesticated. Little is known of 
its nidification, it having only once or twice bred in confinement. 
The trachea is like that of B. Brenta, but of rather smaller diameter. 
BERNICLA JUBATA. 
Ber. Mas.—Capite cristato, colloque brunneis; corpore cinereo, 
atro alboque maculato; abdomine atro. 
Ber. Fem.—Capite colloque brunneis albo sparsis; corpore 
cinereo-brunneo et albo maculato; abdomine albo. 
HAWKSBURY BERNICLE. 
Ber. Male, with the head crested, together with the neck brown; 
body cinereous, spotted with black and white; abdomen black. 
Ber. Fem., with the head and neck brown, blotched with white; — 
body cinereous, spotted with brown and white; abdomen white. 
IN. IN. 
LCNGTN. Seevac dass Ldeisee 2B UA 7g. ene er eee ye 
Bill oo le iesdedeccee, 16 Hhi -Widille tobe ee 
Male: with the head and upper part of the neck umber brown; 
the feathers on the occiput much elongated and darker ; upper part 
of the back, wing coverts, and lower part of the neck, cinereous, in 
the latter each feather having on its lateral edges a spot of black, 
and being tipped with white; lower part of the back, tail, abdomen, 
and belly (in the centre) black; quills brown; tertiaries long, the - 
largest cinereous, the smaller ones with the outer webs black, with 
