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America. 
Bernicla brenta.* Steph. 
Breeds in Greenland. (Newton.) 
From Hudson’s Bay to Texas. It is re- 
placed on the Pacific coast by the 
allied B. nigricans, which has “ the 
back of the jugulum extending over 
most of the under parts, gradually 
fading behind, and the white neck 
patches are usually larger, and meet in 
front.” (Dresser.) 
Bernicla canadensis.* (L.) Boie. (Canada 
Goose. ) 
The whole of North America. 
Cassin, and Lawrence.) 
Its occurrence in Greenland is doubtful. 
(Newton. ) 
The Antilles. 
(Baird, 
(Selater and Salvin.) 
Bernicla leucopsis. Bechst. 
Has occurred on Long and North 
Carolina. (Lawrence, Bul. Nut. Orn. 
Club, Jan., 1877, p. 18.) 
Greenland, and perhaps breeds there. 
(Newton.) 
Aix sponsa.* Boie. (Summer Duck.) 
The whole continent of North America. 
(Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence.) 
Mexico. (Sclater and Salvin.) 
Mareca penelope. 
Accidental on the coast of the United 
States, chiefly Virginia, Carolina, and 
Florida. (Baird, Cassin, and Law- 
rence.) Two noted by Lawrence in 
Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, April, 1878, p. 
98. 
Three have occurred in Greenland. (New- 
ton.) Prybeloy Islands, between Asia 
and the west coast of North America. 
(Dresser. 
Steph. (American 
Mareca americana.* 
Wigeon.) 
The whole of North America. 
Cassin, and Lawrence.) 
Mexico, Central America, and Trinidad. 
(Sclater and Salvin.) | 
(Baird, 
Europe. 
Bernicla brenta.* Steph. (Brent Goose.) 
Common on the northern coasts of 
Russia, Spitzbergen, and Novaya 
Zemlya. Common in winter in 
Northern Temperate Europe. Rare 
in Central Russia, Central Germany, 
and South of France. Has occurred 
in Palestine (Canon Tristram, Ibis, 
1868, p. 328), and, according to Von. 
Henglin (Orn. N. O. Africa, p. 1292), 
in Egypt. (Dresser.) 
Bernicla canadensis. 
An irregular winter British visitant. 
(Harting’s handbook.) 
Bernicla leucopsis.* Bechst. (Bernacle 
Goose. ) 
Iceland and Spitzbergen. Common in 
Sweden ; rarer in Norway and Finland. 
Rare in Central Russia. Found on 
the coasts of the British Isles, Hol- 
land, Belgium, France. Has occtrred 
in South Germany, and twice in 
Bohemia. It is doubtful if it occurs 
in Asia. (Dresser.) 
Dr. Von. Middendorff found it breeding 
in Siberia. (Newton.) 
Aix sponsa. 
Five or six haye been taken in Ger- 
many, France, and England (?). 
(Catalogue des oiseaux d'Europe, 
d’Hamonvyille, p. 66.) 
Mareca penelope.* (L.) Selby. (Wigeon.) 
Throughout Europe, breeding far north, 
though it sometimes does so in the 
British Isles. In winter it is found 
south as far as North Africa, the Red 
Sea, Tangier, Lower Egypt, though 
rare on the Nile. India, Southern 
China, and Japan. (Dresser.) 
Mareca americana. 
According to Mr. Harting’s handbook, 
it has occurred in Britain as follows: 
One in Leadenhall market, the winter 
of 1837-38. (Blythe, Naturalist, 
Vol. III., p. 417, and by others.) 
One in Banffshire, inJan., 1841. (Ed- 
ward, Zool. 1860, p. 6970.) 
One in Strangford Lough, Feb., 1844, 
