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visits the Paeroe Islands, the North sea, and the Baltic, 

 ranging southwards along the shores o£ western Europe to 

 northern France and occasionally to Morocco, the Medi- 

 terranean, and Egypt. East of the Taimyr Peninsula its 

 pliice is taken by B. nigricans, and in North America by 

 the following race. 



Branta bernicia glaucogaster. American 

 Beent Goose. 



Bernicia glaucogaster C. L. 5reAm,H!indb.Naturg. Vog. 

 Deutschl. 1831, p. 849 : German coast oT the Baltic. 



Bernicia brenta (Pall); S. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 117 

 (part.) ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 411 (part.). 



Bi-anta bernicia (Linn.) ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds J3. M. xxvii. 1895, 

 p. 119 (part.). 



Olaucogaster = bluisli (or silvery) breasted ; from yXavKbi = bluish, and 

 'ya(Tr?}jO=belly. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Winter Visitor, met 

 with among flocks o£ B. bernicia on the east coast of Great 

 Britain, mostly to the north of the Humber and notably on 

 the Northumberland coast, where it appears to be more 

 abundant than B. bernicia. The same seems to be true 

 about the south-east coast of Ireland. In the Cromarty 

 Firth it is not uncommon among the vast flocks of 

 Brent Geese. It has also been recorded from the Solway 

 Firth and Essex. 



General Distribution. — The American Brent Goose breeds 

 in the arctic islands of north-eastern North America and 

 the west coast of Greenland. It winters on the east coast 

 of North America southwards to Carolina and Florida, and 

 hfls occurred accidentally in some of the eastern States, 

 Barbados, and British Columbia. It has also been recorded 

 from Kolguev, Novaya Zemlya, and the Taimyr Peninsula. 

 Its exact distribution is still very imperfectly known. 



