thp: brent geese. 
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Bernida kucopsis, Macg. Br. B. iv. p. 622 (1852) ; Dresser, B. 
Eiir. vi. p. 397, pi. 415, fig. i. {1878) ; B. O. U. List Br. 
B. p. 118 (1883) ; Saunders, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. iv. p. 286 
(1885) ; id. Man. Br. B. p. 397 (1889). 
Anser kucopsis, Seebohm, Br. B. iii. p. 512 (1885); Lilford, 
Col. Fig. Br. B. part xi. (1889). 
Branta kucopsis, Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 117 
(1895)- 
Adult Male. — General colour above ashy-grey, with white 
margins to the feathers, before which is a black band, so that 
the upper surface is prettily banded, especially on the wing- 
coverts and inner secondaries ; the mantle blackish, like the 
neck, but the upper back banded like the wings ; lower back 
and rump black ; sides of rump and upper tail-coverts white ; 
tail entirely black; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and pri- 
maries grey, the latter black towards the ends ; the secondaries 
pearly-grey, blackish at the tips and on the inner webs ; fore- 
head and crown white to the line between the middle of the 
eyes ; the middle and hinder part of the crown, as well as the 
whole of the neck, lower throat, fore-neck, and chest, black, 
the latter obscured with dusky-brown margins ; lores and 
feathers in front of the eye black, browner near the base of the 
bill and on the base of the forehead ; cheeks, ear-coverts, eye- 
brow, and throat pure white ; breast and abdomen white ; the 
sides of the body pearly-grey, the feathers tipped with white, 
before which is a brownish shade producing a slightly mottled 
appearance; thighs black; under wing-coverts and ax diaries 
pearly-grey, with whitish tips and du.sky sub-terminal bars like 
the upper wing-coverts ; bill, feet, and claws black ; iris dark 
brown. Total length, 30-0 inches ; culmen, 1-25; wing, 15-0; 
tail, 5-3 ; tarsus, 3-1. 
Adult Female. — Similar to the male, but a little smaller. 
Young. — Differs from the adults in having some black 
feathers intermingled with the white of the cheeks ; the feathers 
of the back and wing-coverts with a rufous tinge at the ends ; 
the grey bars on the flanks darker, and the legs, according to 
Count Salvadori, not so black as in the adults. 
Range in Oreat Britain. — A winter visitor from the north, but 
rare on the eastern coasts of our islands, and decidedly so in 
