Plate CCXCVI. Male and Female.
Tail very short, rounded, of sixteen feathers; bill, feet, and claws
black; anterior parts of head, including a broad space above the eye,
the sides of the head and the throat, white; feathers margining the
bill, and a line from the bill to the eye, curving beneath the lower
eyelid, and running along the upper, brownish-black; neck all round
glossy bluish-black, of which colour are the anterior feathers; the
scapulars, and the wing-coverts, towards their extremities, while the
bases are ash-grey, and their terminal margins white; rump and
tail-feathers deep black; quills greyish-black, darker towards the
tips, the outer webs more or less tinged with ash-grey; upper and
lower tail-coverts, and sides of rump, pure white.
_Male_, 27, 56. _Female_, 23-1/2, 52.
Accidental in North America.
Anser leucopsis, Bonap. Syn. p. 377.
Bernacle Goose, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 355.
Bernacle Goose, Anser leucopsis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p.
609.