THE BLACK BRENT 



BRANTA BERN I CL A NIGRICANS, LAWRENCE 



Plate 18 



English — Black Brent (N. Am.) ; Eskimo Goose (Fort Yukon). 



Russian — Nemdk (Pallas, Krasheninnikov) ; nemkd (Pallas ; probably genitive of nemok ?) ; 



' poly amy gus 1 (Polyakov) ; kazarka chernaya amerikanskaya (Menzbier) ; 



kazarka chernaya sibirskaya, and osheinikovaya kazarka (Buturlin) ; gus nemok 



(Maak). 

 Yakut — Kharder-khaaz or Khardyr-khaaz (on Lena and Vilyui, teste Pallas and Maak). 

 Kamchadal — Terad (Krasheninnikov). 

 Ku r i \-Nukespu. 

 Koryak — Vechopoal 

 Lamut — Karkalu. 



Anas bernicla, Pennant {nee Linn.), Cook's Voy. Pacif., ii. p. 366 (Kamchatka), 1784. 



Anser brenta, Pallas, Zoogr. Ross.- As., ii. p. 229 {partim), 181 1. 



Anser nigricans, Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. York, iv. p. 171, pi. xii. (1846); Seebohm, Hist. Brit Birds, lit p. 508 



(1885); Menzbier, Pt. Ross., i. p. 725 (1895); Buturlin, Dikie Gusi Ross. Imp. (" Zh. Psov. i Ruzh. 



Okh.," 1 901) ; id., separ., p. 8 ; id, Sinopt. Tabl. Okh. Pt. Ross. Imp., 1901, p. 42 ; id., Tabl. Opred. 



Plast. (" Psov. i Ruzh. Okh.," 1 900) ; id., separ., p. 6. 

 Anas brenta, Sevast, Opis. Kamch. by Krasheninnikov, i. p. 474 (note) 1818. 

 Bernicla nigricans, Gray, Genera of Birds, App., p. 27.(1849); Nikolsky, Ostr. Sakhalin, p. 225 (1887); 



Baird and Ridgway, Water-Birds of N. America, i. p. 471 (1884); Macpherson, History of Fowling, 



1897, p. 220. 

 Anas bernicla, Kittl., Denku., ii. p. 384 (1858). 

 Anser bernicla {partim), Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., Anseres, p. 103 (1866) ; Dobrotworski, Tzr. Spb. Otd. Geogr. Obshch., 



i. p. 23 (1870); Miculs, Ocherk Sakhalina, Pril. k. Selokokhoz. i Lesov., pt. 114, p. 43 (1873); Maak > 



Amur, Pribavl., p. 144, No. 180 (1859). 

 Branta nigricans, Bonnaterre, Proc. Ac. Philad., 1870, p. 131 ; Stejneger, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 29, p. 149 



(1885); Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, p. 118 (1887); Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., x. p. 1 35 



(Bering Isl), 1887; Menzbier, Okh.-Kamchat. Krai, Dra. Slyunina, p. 346 (1900); Salvadori, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., xxvii. p. 123 (1895). 

 Branta bernicla, var. nigricans, Coues, Key to N. Amer. Birds, p. 284, fig. 184, b. (1872). 

 Branta bernicla, b. nigricans, Coues, Birds of North-West, p. 557 (1874). 

 Branta brenta nigricans, Taczanowski, Faune Orn. Sib. Or., p. 1 106 (1893). 

 Bernicla torquata, Black, and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 212 (Japan). 

 Bernicla brenta nigricans, Coues, Check-list of N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed., p. 112 (1882), Palmen, Bidr. Sibiresk. 



Ishafsk. Fogelf. Vega-Exp., pi. vii. p. 426. 

 Anser {Br enthus) nigricans, Reichenow, Orn. Centralbl., 1882, p. 3. 

 Bernicla brenta, var. nigricans, Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 32 (Japan). 

 Anser torquatus, Brandt, J. F. Orn., 1891, p. 267. 

 Bernicla brenta, Polyakov, Otchet obizsted. na Sakhaline, Pril. No. 6, pi. xlviii. Zap. Imper. Akad. Nauk, 



1884, p. 12. 



1 Izsledovaniya na ostr. Sakhaline, "Vladivostok," 1883, NN. 1, 3, 5. 



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