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Key to Plate No. 3 Plate No, 3 - 



(A) AMERICAN BRANT, adult. Sexes alike. 



(B) AMERICAN BRANT, adult wing. 



(C) AMERICAN BRANT, juvenile wing. 



Note : The juvenile closely resembles the adult except for the wing-coverts 



as shown. 



Chief distinguishing features of AMERICAN BRANT: (a) White collar 

 incomplete before and behind, (b) black of chest sharply defined against 

 lighter colour of breast and sides, (c) greyish-white breast. 



(D) BLACK BRANT, adult. Sexes .vlike. 



(E) BLACK BRANT, adult wing. 



(C) BLACK BRANT, juvenile wing. 



Note : The juvenile closely resembles the adult except for the wing-coverts 



as shown. 



Chief distinguishing features of BLACK BRANT: (a) White collar in- 

 complete behind, complete in front, (b) black of chest merges into dark 

 breast, (c) breast, slaty brown. 



(F) EMPEROR GOOSE, adult, Sexes alike. 



(G) EMPEROR GOOSE, adult wing. 



Note : The juvenile closely resembles the adult. 



Chief distinguishing features of EMPEROR GOOSE: (a) Head and hind-- 

 neck, white (often suffused with rusty), definitely outlined against black 

 foreneck, (b) feet, orange yellow. 



(H) BARNACLE GOOSE, adult. Sexes alike. 



C J) BARNACLE GOOSE, adult wing. 



Note : The juvenile closely resembles the adult. 



Chief distinguishing features of BARNACLE GOOSE: (a) White heaa, 

 with black crown and hind head, and small black patch between eye and 

 bill, (b) solidly black chest and neck. 



Downy Young, Plate. No. 32. 



Text: American Brant, page 102; Black Brant, page 106; Emperor 

 Goose, page 113 ; Barnacle Goose, page 110. 



