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length by 1'95 inch in breadth. It may safely be inferred that the Bernacle 

 Goose rears one brood only in the year, and the eggs are probably laid early in 

 June, seeing that the birds have been discovered in full moult and incapable of 

 flight on the 22nd of July in Spitzbergen. 



Diagnostic characters.— Branta, with the hind half of the head and 

 the neck black, and with the fore half of the head white, except the lores and the 

 feathers at the base of the upper mandible, which are black. Length, 25 inches. 



