BRENT Goose. NATATORES. ANSER. 271 
Forehead, cheeks, and throat, white. Between the bill 
and eyes is a narrow black streak. Crown of the head, 
neck, and breast, black. Back, wing-coverts, and sca- 
pulars, fine french-grey, passing into brownish-black 
towards the tips of the feathers, which are white. 
Greater quills greyish-black, except the lower part of 
the outer web in each, which is light grey. Upper tail- 
coverts white. Tail black. Under parts silvery-white ; 
undulated upon the flanks with ash-grey. ‘Tibiz clothed 
with black feathers. Bill black. Legs and toes black. 
Tubercle near the bend of the wing prominent. 
The female resembles the male bird. 
The young of the year have the streak between the bill 
and eye much broader than the adults; and the fore- 
head is spotted with black. The under parts are not 
of so pure a white; and the flanks are of a more uni- 
form ash-grey. The upper parts of the body are darker, 
and the tips of the feathers are margined with reddish- 
white. Legs black, tinged with reddish-brown. 
BRENT GOOSE. 
Anser Brent, Flem. 
PLATE XLV. 
Anser Brenta, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 127. sp. 199. 
Anas Bernicla, Linn. Syst. 1198. 13.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 513.—Zath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 844. sp. 32.—Wils. Amer. Orn. 8. 121]. pl. 72. f 1. 
Bernicla Brenta, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 46. 
Brenta, Briss. Orn. 6. 304. 16. p. 31.—Raii Syn. 130. 8 —Will. 275. t. 69. 
Le Cravant, Buff: Ois. 9. pl. 87. 
Oie Cravant, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. 824. 
Ringel Gans, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 911.—Meyer, Tasschenb. 2. 558. 
Brent or Brand Goose, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 579, No. 270.—Arct. Zool. 2. 
No. 478.—Albin’s Birds, 1. pl. 93.—Will. Angl. 360.—Lath. Syn. 8. 467. 
27.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 7. pl. 243.—Mont. Orn. Dict. 1. & Sup.— Bewick’s 
Br. Birds, ed. 1826, t. 300.— Wils. Amer. Orn. 8. 145. pl. 92. f. 1. mas. 
Brent Bernicle, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 46. 
Provincrat—Rat or Road Goose, Clatter Goose, Horra Goose, Juink 
Goose, Ware Goose. 
General 
descrip- 
tion. 
Adult. 
Young. 
