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Land, and is said to do so south of these limits. Migrates south along the Atlantic coasts to 

 Carolina and even Florida, occasionally straying inland, and has been recorded in small numbers 

 on the coasts of southern British Columbia and Vancouver Island. Has occurred on the 

 Taimyr, and apparently on Kolguev, and apparently in some numbers in the British Isles. 

 [F. c. R. a.] 



BLACK-BRENT [lininta bemicUi nigricans (Lawrence)]. 



1. Description. Resembles the brent-goose, B. bernicla (see vol. iv. p. 158), but on the 

 whole is considerably darker. The sexes are alike in coloration and markings. Length 22-29 in. 

 [558-728 mm.]. Head, neck, upper part of the body and chest dark brownish black; the white 

 collar on the neck broader than in the brent-goose, and always connected in front, and generally 

 behind ; belly and sides of the body black ; abdomen and vent pure white ; upper and under 

 tail-coverts white. The young bird has the white neck-ring obscurely defined, the greater and 

 secondary coverts with white tips, and the feathers on the flanks greyish brown without the 

 white tips of the adult, [w. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. This race breeds in western Arctic America and Arctic Asia east of the 

 Lena. In Alaska it appears to be confined to the northern coast and islands, and in Asia breeds 

 not only on the northern coast but also on the islands in Bering's Sea. On migration it visits 

 the western coasts of America south to Lower California, and has occurred on Hawaii, while in 

 Asia it is found along the eastern coasts and islands to Japan. It is said to have been obtained 

 eighteen times in England, including one flock of fourteen birds from the Wash, 1909. [F. c. K. J.] 



[CANADA-GOOSE, Brdnta canadensis (L.). Another N. American species which now 

 lives with us in a state of semi-domestication, and has been naturalised for over two hundred 

 years ; but there is no evidence that any of the specimens obtained have reached us by natural 

 means from America. [F. c. R. J.]] 



[|M;YPTIAN-GOOSE, Chenalopex cegyptiacus (Linnaeus). Inhabits the Nile valley and 

 Palestine; also occurs in our islands, but is frequently kept in captivity, and all occurrences are 

 probably due to escaped birds. [F. c. B. J.] ] 



[SpuiiwiNGED-GoosE, PLectropterus gambdnsis (Linnteus). Inhabits Tropical Africa; has 

 occurred also in these islands ; but its presence is undoubtedly due to escapes from confinement. 

 [F. c. R. J.] ] 



[[NDIAN BARHEADED-GOOSE, Anser indicus (Latham). Also said to have once occurred in 

 England. Probably this bird had also escaped. [F. c. R. j.]] 



THE SWANS 1 



[ORDER : Anseriformes. SUBORDER: Anseres. FAMILY: Anatidce. SUBFAMILY: Cygnin.cc] 



[AMERICAN TRUMPETER-SWAN, Cygnus buccinator, Richardson. There is some evidence 

 that this species was obtained in Suffolk in 1866, but the specimen in question is immature, 

 and more evidence is desirable. [F. c. B. J.] ] 



[AMERICAN WHISTLING-SWAN, Cygnus columbidnus Ord. This species is stated to have 

 been identified among dead game in shops in Edinburgh. Both this and the preceding 



1 Vol. iv. p. 171. 



