596 BRANTA 



832. BERNACLE GOOSE. 

 BRANTA LEUCOPSIS. 



Branta leucopsis (Bechst.), Orn. Taschenb. ii. p. 424 (1803) ; (Naum.) 

 xi. p. 378, Taf. 291 ; (Gould), B. of E. v. pi. 350 ; (id.), B. of Gt. 

 Brit. v. pi. 7 ; (Dresser), vi. p. 397, pi. 415, fig. 1 ; Salvador!, Cat. 

 B. Br. Mus. xxvii. p. 117 ; (Saunders), p. 409 ; (Lilfcrd), vii. p. 69, 

 pi. 26; Ridgway, p. 117. 



Oie-bemache, French ; Weisswangengans, German ; Brandgans, 

 Dutch ; Bramgaas, Dan. ; Hvidkindet Gaas, Norw. ; Hvitkindad 

 Gds, Swed. 



Ad. (Holland). Hind-crown, lores, nape, hind-neck, breast, and upper 

 back deep black ; rest of the head and upper throat white ; back-feathers 

 with scapulars and wing-coverts bluish grey narrowly tipped with white 

 and subterminally barred with black ; rump black ; the sides and tail- 

 coverts white ; quills and tail black ; under parts white, the flanks in- 

 distinctly barred with greyish ; bill and legs black ; iris dark brown. 

 Culmen T65, wing 15'8, tail 5'9, tarsus 2'85 inch. 



Hob. Arctic Europe, in winter migrating south to the shores 

 of the British Islands, Scandinavia, and northern continental 

 Europe, rarely to southern Europe ; as a straggler occurring 

 on the Atlantic coasts of North America from Hudson's Bay to 

 North Carolina. 



In general habits it does not differ from the Brent Goose. 

 It is during the summer a more boreal species and scarcely 

 anything is known respecting its nidification, but it probably 

 breeds in Greenland. I possess two eggs from the most northern 

 of the Lofoten Islands, laid by a wounded bird, which in colour 

 resemble those of B. bernicla but are rougher in texture of 

 shell, and measure 2*64 by 1'82 and 2'62 by T76 respectively. 



833. RED-BREASTED GOOSE 

 BRANTA RUFICOLLIS. 



Branta ruftcollis (Pallas), Spicil. Zool. fasc. vi. p. 21, Taf. iv. (1769) ; 

 (Naum.) xi. p. 408, Taf. 293 ; (Gould), B. of E. v. pi. 351 ; (id.), B. 

 of Gt. Brit. v. pi. 6 ; (Dresser), vi. p. 403, pi. 416 ; Salvador!, Cat. 

 B. Br. Mus. xxvii. p. 124) ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 1110 ; (Saunders), 

 p. 407 ; Lilford, vii. p. 67, pi. 25. 



Bernache d con roux, French ; Rothhalsgans, German ; 

 Eoodhalsgans, Dutch ; Eddhalsad G-ds, Swed. ; Chakvoi, Russ. 



ad. (Russia). Crown, nape, throat, forepart of cheeks, and a band 

 encircling the eye black ; loral patch, a spot below the eye, a stripe con- 

 tinued back, and another down on the neck pure white ; auricular patch, 

 the whole of the forepart of the chest, and the sides of the neck extending 



