520 BIRDS — ANATIDJE. 



and secondary coverts brownisli- black, the latter with broad whitish edg- 

 ing. Bill light lake red, the arched edges blackish, nail light horn- 

 color. Feet darker-red. Length, 27^; wing, 17i; tarsus and middle toe 

 with claw, each 3J ; bill, 2f . 



Mr. Langdon gives this species as a migrant on the Ohio and its tribu- 

 taries, and notes its identification at Brookville, Indiana. A specimen 

 which I saw in Cincinnati was said to have been taken on Sandusky 

 Bay. 



Genus BRANTA. Scopoli. 



Bill shorter than the head, the lamic sb of upper mandible concealed. Hind toe elevated, 

 indimentary, not reaching the ground. 



Bbanta BEENICLA (L.) 



Brant Groose. 



Anas hernicla, Kirtland, Prelim. Eep. Ohio Geolog. Snrv., 1838, 67. 



Anser herniola, Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. Sorv., 1838, 1C6, 186. 



Sernicla hrenta, Wheaton, Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 1860, 370; Reprint, 1861, 12. 



BroMta iernicla, Whbaton, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Eep. for 1874, 574 : Reprint,. 



1875, 14. — Langdon, Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 16; Revised List, Journ. Cin.Soo.Nat. 



Hist., i, 1879, 185 ; Reprint, 19. 



Anas iernicla, LiNNiBDS, Syst. Nat., 1, 1766, 19. 

 Branta iernicla, ScoPOLi, Bemerk. Natnrg., 1770, 73. 

 Ansel' iernicla, Illiger, Prod., 1811, SJ77. 

 Bernicla irenta, Stephens, Gen. Zool., xii, pt. ii, 1824, 46. 



Head, neck, body anteriorly, quills and tail black ; a small patch of white streaks on 

 the middle of the neck, and usually white touches on the under eyelid and chin ; upper 

 tail coverts white ; back brownish-gray, under parts the same but paler, and fading 

 into white on lower belly and crissum; black of jagulum well-defined against the color 

 of the breast ; length, 2 feet ; wing, 13 ; tail, 5 ; bill, 1 J- ; tarsus, 2i. 



Habitat, Europe and North America, rare or casual on the Pacific. 

 Rare migrant. '' The Brant Goose is not unfrequently seen passing 

 over us in the spring of the year, and it is frequently seen on the lake 

 shore during a few days in spring " (Kirtland). I have never identified 

 this bird ; it is given by Mr. Langdon as " migrant on the Ohio and trib- 

 utaries." 



" It is with considerable hesitation that I permit the Brant to remain 

 as unquestionably a bird of Ohio. Dr. Kirtland's note is, when carefully 

 considered, rather vague, and Mr. Langdon's very general. Audubon 

 says the Brant is never found far inland. Mr. Winslow informs me that 

 it has not to his knowledge been taken on Lake Erie. Dr. Haymond 

 has identified it in Brookville, Indiana, and Mr. Nelson says : " Probably 

 a rare visitant, but the only instances known to me of its capture in 



