BRANT A. 



1. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gardens, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



London). 



1. Laid in confinement (Newcastle). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Laid in confinement (Blackburn Crowley Bequest. 



Park, Lancashire). 



Branta bernicla (Linn.). 

 Ansei 1 bernicla, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vo'cj. tab. Ixxv. fig. 2 (1845-54). 



p. 389 (1877). 

 Anser brenta, Heivitson, Egt/s of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 389, pi. cix. fig. i 



(185(5) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 508, pi. 60 (1885) ; id. Eggs of 



Brit. Birds, p. 33, pi. 10. fig. i (1896). 

 Branta bernicla, Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 119 (1895) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-L i. p. 213 (1899). 



The eggs of the Brent Goose measure from 2*56 to 3*2 iu length, 

 and from 1-77 to 1*95 in breadth. 



(5. Discovery Bay, Griunel) Land Voy.- H.M.S. ' Discovery/ 



(C. Hart). 

 i. Simmonds' Island, Smith's Sound, Voy. H.M.S. ' Alert.' 



Lat. 82^ X., 25th June (If. W. 



Feilden). 

 \ . Upernavick, Greenland, June Seebohm Coll. 



(Feneker: Hargitt Coll.). 



2. Spitsbergen. Seebohm Coll. 



2. Spitsbergen. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Spitsbergen (Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



6. Spitsbergen, end of June. Crowley Bequest, 



o. Spitsbergen, 27th June (Nathorst Crowley Bequest. 



E.rpcd.}. 



Branta nigricans (Lcnvr.). 



Bernicla nigricans, Baird, Brewer 8f Ridgw. Water Birds N. Am. \. 



p. 471 (1884). 

 Branta nigricans, Nelson, Report Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 87 (1887) ; Mac- 



Farlane, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 424 (1891) ; Salvador*, Cat. 



Bird* B. M. xxvii. p. 123 (1895) ; ' Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 213 (1899). 



The eggs of the Black Brent Goose measure from 2*73 to 3'05 in 

 length, and from 1-86 to 1-9 in breadth. 



6. Anderson River, Arctic America, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



July (R. MacFarlane: Henshaiv 



Coll.). 

 3. Anderson River, July (R. Mac- Crowley Bequest. 



Far lane: Smiths. Inst.). 

 2. Arctic America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



