BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



Bernacle (Boose. 



THE Bernacle Goose (Bernicla leucopsis t Bechstein) is a 

 common autumn and winter migrant to the British Isles. 

 It inhabits Arctic Europe, and during migration passes 

 southward to the Mediterranean and Egypt. The adult 

 has the cheeks, line over the eye, forehead, and throat, 

 white; lores, top of head, neck, and shoulders, black; 

 mantle, lavender grey, with black bars and white tips; pri- 



