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Hakodadi, are correctly identified. Mr. Hensoii has also sent 

 an adult and an immature example of U. car bo. 



BERNICLA NIGRICANS. 



An example of the Black Brent Goose sent by Mr. Ringer 

 from Nagasaki agrees with examples from Yedo Bay and 

 Hakodadi, and has hitherto been erroneously identified as the 

 Brent Goose (Ibis, 1878, p. 212). There are sixteen feathers 

 in the tail. It is an almost uniform dark brown, the head, 

 neck, and breast nearly black, except a white crescent streaked 

 with black on the fore neck, nearly meeting on the hind 

 neck. Examples of the Brent Goose with the very dark 

 underparts below the breast are found in England on the 

 Essex and Lincolnshire coasts, together with typical birds ; 

 and in some of them the white on the neck is almost as much 

 developed as in the Black Brent Goose. 



This species is said to be found on both coasts of North 

 America, but very rarely on the east coast. It was first de- 

 scribed by Lawrence (Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. York, iv. 

 p. 171). The volume is dated 1848, but the paper was read 

 on the 16th of March, 1846. This bird must not be con- 

 founded with B. hutchinsi from Hakodadi (Ibis, 1882, p. 369), 

 which is paler and has the belly nearly white, and large 

 triangular patches of white covering the cheeks and ear- 

 coverts on each side of the head, as in B. canadmsis, of which 

 it is a small form, and with which it is probably conspecific. 

 B. leucopareia is another form of the size of B. canadtnsis, 

 but differing from it and B. hutchinsi in having a pale ring 

 round the lower throat. 



TADORNA CORNUTA. 



Several examples collected by Mr. Ringer at Nagasaki are 

 correctly identified. 



QUERQUEDULA CIRCIA. 



Examples of the Garganey have been sent by Mr. Ringer 

 from Nagasaki. Capt. Blakiston has obtained it also in 

 Yezo. 



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