Crass II. 
BRENT GOOSE. 
goose, and very delicate food: in both respects 
suiting his account of the Cheneros.* 
Anas Bernicla. A. fusca, ca- 
pite collo pectoreque nigris, 
collari albo. Lath. Ind. orn. 
Anas Bernicla. Gm. Lin. 513. 
Belgis Rotgans, Calmartensi- 
bus Prutgas. Faun. Suec. sp. 
115. 
Cimbris Ray-v. Rad-Gaas. Nor- 
vegis Raat-v. Raatne-Gaas. 
item Goul-v. Gagl. Brun- 
nich, 52. ; 
Baum-Gans. Frisch, i. 156. . 
Branta Bernicla. Scopoli, No. 
84. 
Br. Zool. 151. Add. plates. 
Q. Arct. Zool. ii. 274. 
844. id. Syn. vi. 467. 
Les Canes de Mer. Belon av. 
166. 
Aldr. av. iii. 73. 
Wil. orn. 360. 
Raii Syn. av. 137. 
Bernacle. Nat. hisé. Ireland. 
192. 
Brenta, Ie Cravant. Brisson 
av. vi. 304. fab. 31. Hist. 
dois. ix. 87. Pl. Enl. 342. 
THIS is inferior in size to the Bernacle goose. 
The bill is one inch and an half long; the color 
of that, the head, neck, and upper part of the 
breast is black; on each side the slenderest 
part of the neck is a white spot; the lower 
part of the breast, the scapulars, and coverts of 
the wings are ash colored, clouded with a 
deeper shade; the feathers above and below 
the tail are white; the tail and quil feathers 
black; the legs biack. | 
* Anserini generis sunt Chenalopeces: et quibus lautiores 
epulas non novit Britannia Chenerotes, fere ansere minores: 
Lib. x. c. 22. 
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