Plate CCCXCI. Male and Female.
Tail of sixteen feathers, rounded; bill and feet black; head and neck
all round black, glossed with blue; a small streak under the eye, a
spot on the chin, and patch on each side of the neck, white; general
colour of upper parts brownish-grey, the feathers margined with light
greyish-brown; quills and primary coverts greyish-black; upper
tail-coverts white; tail greyish-black; fore part of breast light
brownish-grey, the feathers terminally margined with greyish-white;
abdomen and lower tail-coverts white; sides grey, the feathers broadly
tipped with white; axillar feathers and lower wing-coverts grey.
_Male_, 24-1/2, 48. _Female_, 23, 44-1/2.
Abundant along the coast of the Atlantic, from Maine to Maryland,
during winter. Never seen far inland. Breeds from Labrador northward.
Columbia River.
Brant, Anas Bernicla, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 131.
Anser Bernicla, Bonap. Syn. p. 378.
Anser Bernicla, Brent Goose, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v.
ii. p. 469.
Brant or Brent Goose, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 358.
Brent Goose, Anser Bernicla, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. pp. 24,
610.