102 AXATIDjE. 



visits the Faeroe Islands, the North sea, and the Baltic, 

 ranging southwards along the shores of western Europe to 

 northern France and occasionally to Morocco, the Medi- 

 terranean, and Egypt. East of the Taimyr Peninsula its 

 place is taken by B. nigricans, and in North America by 

 the following race. 



Branta bernicla glaucogaster. AMERICAN 

 BRENT GOOSE. 



Bernicla glaucogaster C.L. #r<?/tm,Handb.Naturg.Vog. 

 Deutschl. 1831, p. 849 : German coast of the Baltic. 



Bernicla brenta (Pally, B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 117 

 (part.) ; Sounders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 411 (part.)- 



Branta bernicla (Linn.) ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 1895, 

 p. 119 (part.). 



Glaucogaster = bluish (or silvery) breasted ; from yXavxbs = bluish, and 

 y(Tr>}p=belly. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Winter Visitor, met 

 with among flocks of B. bernicla on the east coast of Great 

 Britain, mostly to the north of the Humber and notably on 

 the Northumberland coast, where it appears to be more 

 abundant than B. bernicla. The same seems to be true 

 about the south-east coast of Ireland. In the Croinarty 

 Firth it is not uncommon among the vast flocks of 

 Brent Geese. It has also been recorded from the Sohvay 

 Firth and E=?sex. 



General Distribution. The American Brent Goose breeds 

 in the arctic islands of north-eastern North America and 

 the west coast of Greenland. It winters on the east coast 

 of North America southwards to Carolina and Florida, and 

 has occurred accidentally in some of the eastern States, 

 Barbados, and British Columbia. It has also been recorded 

 from Kolguev, Novaya Zemlya, and the Taimyr Peninsula. 

 Its exact distribution is still very imperfectly known. 



