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upper parts browiiish-grey, the feathers margined 

 with light greyish-brown ; quills and primary coverts 

 greyish-black ; fore part of breast light brownish- 

 grey, the feathers tei-minally margined with greyish- 

 white ; abdomen and lower tail-coverts white ; sides 

 grey; feathers rather broadly tipped with white. 

 Length two feet ; wing fourteen inches and a half. 

 Female rather smaller. 



The brant is not fond of the fresh lakes and streams, 

 but prefers the ocean and its contiguous bays and 

 lagoons ; it is far more abundant along the sea-coast 

 than upon the western waters, and in fact I am not 

 aware that I have ever killed one in the inland States. 

 It responds to its peculiar note, stools well, and is 

 often killed in great numbers on the South Bay of 

 Long Island. 



The Swan. 

 Genus Oygnus, Meyer. 



Generic Distinctions. — Bill longer than the head, 

 higher than broad at the base, depressed and a little 

 widened towards the end ; upper mandible, rounded, 

 with the dorsal line sloping; lower mandible flat- 

 tened, with the angle very long, and rather narrow ; 

 nostrils placed near the ridge ; head of moderate 

 size, oblong, compressed ; neck extremely long and 

 slender ; body very large, compact, depressed ; feet 

 short, stout, placed a little behind the centre of the 

 body ; tarsi short ; wings long, broad ; tail very short, 

 graduated. 



