62 BLACK AND WHITE BERNICLE. 



LESS than the Brent Goose : beak dusky : head and 

 neck pale grey : cheeks white : the breast, belly, and 

 back are bright ash-colour, mixed with darker semi- 

 circular lines : the wing-coverts are white : the se- 

 condary quills are green ; the primaries black : the 

 vent orange with a black bar : the tail and legs 

 black : at the bend of the wing is a blunt knob. 

 The female Is less brilliant in colour, and is destitute 

 of the white on the cheeks. It inhabits the Cape of 

 Good Hope and the Coast of Coromandel. 



B. Digit is anteriorihus semipalmatis. 

 B. With the anterior toes half webbed. 



BLACK AND WHITE BERNICLE? 



(Bernicla? melanoleuca.) 



BE ? alba, capitc, collo, alis, candd, femoribnsque nigris, rostro 



fulvo, pedibus flavis* 

 White Bernide with the head, neck, wings, tail, and thighs, 



black, the beak fulvous, the legs yellow. 

 Anas melanoleuca. Lath. Ind. Orn. App. Ixix. 

 Black and White Goose. Lath. Syn. Slip. ii. 344. 

 Anser nielanoleucus. Vieil. 2 Edit, du Nottv. Diet, a" Hist. Nat. 



t. 23. p. 344. 



A NATIVE of New Holland, and greatly resembling 

 the Black-necked Swan : its beak is very similar to 

 that of the Wild Swan, extending far backwards, and 

 taking in the eyes : it is yellowish at the base, red in 



