ANATID7E, GEESE. GEN. 249, 250. 



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249. Genus PHILACTE Bannister. 

 Painted Goose. EmiKvor Goose. Wavy bluish-gray, with lavender or 

 lilac tinting, and sharp black crescentic marks; head, nape and tail white, 

 former often washed with amber-yellow ; throat black, white-speckled ; 

 quills varied with black and white ; 2.5-28 ; wing 15-17 ; tail 5-6 ; bill IJ ; 

 tarsus 3. N.W. coast; abundant at mouth of Yukon. Oldoephaga canagica 

 Bd., 768; Ell., pi. 45; Dall., Trans. Chicago Acad, i, 296; PJdlade 

 canagica Baj^n., Proc. Phila. Acad. 1870, lol canagica. 



Fk;. IS;}. Emperor Goose. 



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250. Genus BRAIfTA Scopoli. 



*5f* Bill and feet black ; head and neck black, with white spaces. 

 ^Jj Barnacle Goose. Blackish; tail coverts, sides of rump, forehead, sides 

 of head, and throat, white ; interscapulars and wing coverts bluish-gray ; 

 under parts plumbeous-white ; 28 ; wing 17 ; tarsus 2| ; bill 1|. Europe ; 

 very rare or merely casual in N. Am. 

 Bd., Am. Nat. ii, 49 (Hudson's Bay) ; 

 Lawe., ibid, v, 10 (North Carolina). 

 NuTT., ii, 355 ; Aud., vi, 200, pi. 378 ; 



Bd., 768 LEUCOPSis. 



Brant Goose. 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 brown- 

 ish-gray; under parts the same, but paler, and fading into white on the lower 

 belly and crissum ; black of jugulum well defined against the color of the 



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Fig. 184. a, Braut Goose ; 6, var. nigricans. 



