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BEENICLA LEUCOPSIS. 



(BEKNACLE GOOSE.) 



Anser bemicla, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 300 (1760). 



Anser bemicla minor, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 302 (1760). 



\Anas hrota, O. F. Mull. Zool. Dan. Prodr. p. 14 (1776). 



La Bemache, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ix. p. 93 (1783). 



Anas leucopsis, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. ii. p. 424 (1803). 



Anser leucopsis, Bechst. Gemeinn. Naturg. Deutschl. 2nd ed. iii. p. 921 (1809). 



Anser bemicla, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. ii. p. 230 (1811, nee Linn.). 



Bemicla leucopsis (Bechst.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 563. 



Bemicla erythropus, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. 2, p. 49 (1824, nee Linn.). 



Branta leucopsis (Bechst.), Bann. Proc. Phil. Ac. Nat. Sc. 1870, p. 131. 



Bemacle, Claik-Goose, English; Cathan, Gaelic; Oie-bemache, Bernache nonnette, French; 

 Weissivangen-Gans, BemaJcel-Gans, German; Brandgans, Dutch; Bramgaas, Danish; 

 Brangaas, Fseroese; Hrota, Mar-gies, Icelandic; Hvitkindad-Gas, Swedish. 



Figures notabiles. 



DAubenton, PL Enl. 855 ; Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 32 ; Kjaerb. Orn. Dan. taf. 45 ; 

 Frisch, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 189 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 45. fig. 1; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. 

 taf. 291; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 57. fig. 4; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 350; id. B. of G. 

 Brit. v. pi. 5; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 284; Audub. B. of Am. pi. 378. 



Ad. fronte, capitis lateribus et gula albis, stria nigra inter rostrum et oculos : vertice, occipite et collo toto ad 

 sternum nitide nigris : dorso et alis supra pallide caerulescenti-cinereis, apicibus pennarum nigricantibus, 

 albido plerumque marginatis : uropygio et Cauda nigris, uropygii lateribus et supracaudalibus albis : 

 remigibus extus cinereis, intiis et ad apicem nigricantibus : corpore subtiis albo, hypoehondriis indi- 

 sthicte griseo fasciatis : rostro et pedibus nigris : iride fusca. 



Juv. adulto similis sed fronte et capitis lateribus vix nigro guttatis et plumis in corpore supra sordide rufes- 

 centi-fusco et nigro-fusco marginatis. 



Adult Male (Lichtenfels, S. Greenland, 18tb May). Fore part of the crown, sides of the head, and entire 

 upper throat white; feathers at the base of the upper mandible, and a patch extending to the eye, 

 black ; hind crown, nape, and entire lower and hind neck, breast, and fore part of the back deep glossy 

 black ; feathers on the fore part of the back narrowly tipped with brown, those on the rest of the back 

 ashy grey broadly tipped with blackish ; centre of the rump black ; upper tail-coverts and sides of the 

 rump white ; tail black ; quills blackish brown, the outer webs, except towards the tip, ashy blue-grey ; 

 wing-coverts and scapulars ashy French grey, more or less broadly terminated with blackish brown, 

 and finally narrowly tipped with white; underparts white, the flanks indistinctly barred with pale 



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