520 BIRDS—ANATID.A. 
and secondary coverts brownish-black, the latter with broad whitish edg- 
ing. Bill light lake red, the arched edges blackish, nail light horn- 
color. Feet darker-red. Length, 274; wing, 174; tarsus and middle toe 
with claw, each 34; bill, 23. 
Mr. Langdon gives this species as a migrant on the Ohio and its tribu- 
taries, and notes its identification at Brookville, Indiana. A specimen 
which I saw in Cincinnati was said to have been taken on Sandusky 
Bay. 
GENUS BRANTA. Scopoli. 
Bill shorter than the head, the lamine of upper mandible concealed. Hind toe elevated, 
rudimentary, not reaching the ground. 
BRANTA BERNICLA (L.) 
Wrant Goose. 
Anas bernicla, KIRTLAND, Prelim. Rep. Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 67. 
Anser bernicla, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 166, 186. 
Bernicla brenta, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 370; Reprint, 1861, 12. 
Branta bernicla, WHEATON, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 574; Reprint,. 
1875, 14.—LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 16; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. 
Hist., i, 1879, 185; Reprint, 19. 
Anas bernicla, LINNZUS, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 19. 
Branta bernicla, Scopout, Bemerk. Natarg., 1770, 73. 
Anser bernicla, ILLIGER, Prod., 1811, 277. 
Bernicla brenta, STEPHENS, Gen. Zool., xii, pt. ii, 1824, 46. 
Head, neck, body anteriorly, quills and tail black ; a small patch of white streaks on 
the middle of the neck, and usually white touches on the under eyelid and chin; upper 
tail coverts white; back brownish-gray, under parts the same but paler, and fading 
into white on lower belly and crissum; black of jugulum well-defined against the color 
of the breast ; length, 2 feet; wing, 13; tail, 5; bill, 14; tarsus, 24. 
Habitat, Europe and North America, rare or casual on the Pacific. 
Rare migrant. “The Brant Goose is not unfrequently seen passing 
over us in the spring of the year, and it is frequently seen on the lake 
shore during a few days in spring” (Kirtland). Ihave never identified 
this bird; itis given by Mr. Langdon as “migrant on the Ohio and trib- 
utaries.” 
It is with considerable hesitation that I permit the Brant to remain 
as unquestionably a bird of Ohio. Dr. Kirtland’s note is, when carefully 
considered, rather vague, and Mr. Langdon’s very general. Audubon 
says the Brant is never found far inland. Mr. Winslow informs me that 
it has not to his knowledge been taken on Lake Hrie. Dr. Haymond 
has identified it in Brookville, Indiana, and Mr. Nelson says: “ Probably 
a rare visitant, but the only instances known to me of its capture in 
