Genus Branta, Scopoli (1769) 



Head with beak and legs black; white upper and under tail-coverts reaching tips of 

 tail-feathers. 



THE BRENT GOOSE 



В RANT A BERNICLA, LlNN. 



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English— Brent-Goose ; Brent ; Black Goose; Sea-Goose; Bemicle (incorrectly locally); 

 Ware-Goose ; Barnacle-Goose (Ireland); Rott-Goose; Rat-Goose; Road-Goose; 

 Rood-Goose ; Clatter-Goose ; Quink Goose ; Crocker ; Horra-Goose ; Horie-Goose 

 (Shetland). 



Russian— Chemaya kazarka (book name); morskaya kazarka (Petersburg); nemdk 1 

 (locally, incorrectly); nimok (in some authors); gns-nemok; cherny gus 

 (Turukhansk) ; revushka (Pomore, ace. Pleske) ; ? klokot (cited by Dal, without 

 stating to which species it is given ; very probably to this). 



S^moyzd—IVurrak (on Kolguev, ace. Trevor-Battye) ; Parden-yeptau (on Pechora, teste 

 Seebohm) ; Kuld (Taimyr peninsula, teste Middendorff). 



Yakut — Kara-khdz (on Boganida, = black goose). 



German— Ringelgans ; Rottgans ; Meergans ; Brant gans ; Brent gans ; Klostergans ; 

 Monchgans; Bernikel; Grauente (?). 



French — La Cravant ; Bemache cravant ; Oie cravant ; Bernache a collier ; ? Oie marine. 



Finnish — Sepel-hanki ; Musta-hanki (black goose). 



Anas bernicla, Linn., Syst. Nat, i. p. 198, No. \%partim (1766). 



Brenta, Brisson, Orn., vi. p. 304, pi. xxxi. (1760). 



Branta bernicla, Scopoli, Ann. I. H. N., p. 67 (1769) ; Trumbull, Names and Portraits of Birds, p. 5 (1896?); 



Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvii. p. 119 (1895) ; Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, p. 119 (1887). 

 Anser bernicla, Bonnaterre, Encyclop. Method., i. p. 121, pi. 32, f. 4 (1790); Kessler, Russk. Orn., p. 368 



(1847) ; Middendorff, Sib. R., ii. p. 228, pi. xxi. (pull.) (185 1) {forma typica et v. glaucogaster). 

 Anas monachus, Beseke, Vog. Kurl., s. 45, taf. 5 (1792). 

 Anser torquatus, Frisch, Vog. Deutschl., ii. pi. 156; Naum., Vog. Deutschl., xi. p. 393, pi. 292 (1842); 



Severtsov, Per. Yavl. Zh. Zh. Pt. Voron. gub., p. 226 (1856). 

 Anser brenta, Pallas {partim\ Zoogr. Ross.-As., ii. p. 229 (181 1); Seebohm, Hist. Brit. Birds, iii. p. 508, pi. 66 



(egg), 1885 ; Menzbier, Pt. Ross., i. p. 724 (1895); id., Promysl. Pt. Ross, i Kavkaza, p. 460, pi. 130 



(1902); Kholodk. i Silantiev, Ptitsy Yevr., p. 524, pi. 42, fig. 6 (1901); Silantiev, Opred. Yevr. Pt, 



1 Nemok is properly the name of the Eastern black kazarka (B. nigricans), a description and figure of which are given in the 

 present work. 



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