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FLAMINGOES, DUCKS, AND SCREAMERS 



western Arctic America it is replaced by the American brent goose (B. nigricans}, 

 distinguished by the white of the middle of the neck forming an almost complete 

 collar; the winter range of this species extending along the Pacific seaboard as far 

 as Lower California. The bernicle goose (B. leucopsis} anciently supposed by 

 some extraordinary confusion of ideas to have been produced from the well-known 

 ship barnacles is a larger species, measuring upward of twenty-five inches in 



MAI.E AND FEMALE HALF-BRED UPLAND GEESE. 

 (From Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1876.) 



length, and easily recognized by the greater part of the front of the head being 

 white, although the lores and the feathers at the base of the upper mandible are 

 black. The plumage of the upper parts is largely lavender gray; the scapulars, 

 wing coverts, and many of the wing feathers tipped with a bluish-black crescent 

 edged with white at the end, while the primaries and tail feathers are almost black; 

 the breast and abdomen being grayish white, and the under tail coverts pure white. 

 This species is an inhabitant of the coasts of Northern Europe, ranging in winter 



