68 DUCK SHOOTING. 



The common brant has the head, neck, breast and fore 

 back black, with narrow touches of white on either side 

 of the neck, just below the head. The upper parts are 

 brownish-gray, much as in the Canada goose, but each 

 feather is narrowly margined with grayish. The under 

 parts are grayish-white, fading into pure white on the 

 belly, the upper and under tail coverts being also white. 

 The middle of the rump and the quill feathers of the 

 wing are blackish. The tail is black, as are the bill, 

 legs and feet. The young is not noticeably different, 

 except that the white touches on the neck are likely to 

 be absent, and white bars cross the wing, formed by 

 the white tips of the secondary feathers. 



