

BARNACLE GOOSE. 



Branta leucopsis (Bechst.)'. 



Another species of this group is the barnacle goose 

 {Branta leucopsis), which is entitled to mention here 

 only to complete the list of our wildfowl. It is a strag- 

 gler from Europe, where it is very common. No doubt 

 it regularly occurs in Greenland. A specimen has been 

 taken near Rupert House, at the southern end of Hud- 

 son's Bay, and others in Nova Scotia, on Long Island 

 and in Currituck Sound, in North Carolina. It is not a 

 bird likely to be met with by the sportsmen, and yet, if 

 met with it should at once be reported, since every in- 

 stance of its capture is of interest. It is a small bird, 

 only a little larger than a brant, and may be known by 



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