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Branta bSmicla (Linn^us). 



Range. — • Arctic islands and coasts of the Northern Hemisphere, 

 south in winter to southern Europe and eastern United States. 



a. [Branta bemicla bemicla. Extralimital.] 



6. Branta bemicla glaucogSstra (Bbehm). Brant. [173a.] 



Bernicla glaucogaster Beehm, Handbuch Vogel Deutschl., 1831, 849. 

 (German coast of Baltic Sea.) 



Range. — Northern Hemisphere. Breeds on Arctic islands north of lati- 

 tude 74° and west to about longitude 100°, and on the whole west coast of 

 Greenland; winters on the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts south to North 

 Carolina, rarely to Florida; has been recorded in the interior from Manitoba, 

 Ontario, Colorado, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Louisiana; 

 accidental in British Coliunbia and Barbados. 



Branta nigricans (Lawrence). Black Brant. [174.] 



Anser nigricans Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. H. N. Y., IV, 1846, 171, pi. 

 xii. (Egg Harbor, N. J.) 



Range. — Western North America. Breeds on the Arctic coast and 

 islands from Point Barrow east to near mouth of Anderson River, 

 north probably to Melville Island; common on Siberian coast, Chukchi 

 Peninsula, and west to New Siberian Islands; winters on the Pacific 

 coast from British Columbia south to San Quintin Bay, Lower Cali- 

 fornia, in the interior of Oregon and Nevada, and on the Asiatic coast 

 south to Japan; recorded as a straggler to Massachusetts, New York, 

 and New Jersey. 



Branta leucopsis (Bechstein). Barnacle Goose. [175.] 



Anas leucopsis Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. Deutschl., II, 1803, 424. 

 (Germany.) 



Range. — Northern part of the Old World. Breeds in northern 

 part of Eastern Hemisphere as far north as Spitzbergen; winters in 

 Great Britain and western Europe, occurring south to Spain; occurs 

 in Iceland, and in migration on both coasts of Greenland; recorded 

 from Ungava, Ontario, Quebec, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, 

 and North Carolina. 



