A Synopsis of the Birds of North AmericaAudubon, John James
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A Synopsis of the Birds of North America
Audubon, John James
Birds -- Classification; Birds -- North America
Tail of sixteen feathers; bill, feet, and claws black; head and two
upper thirds of neck glossy black; a large subtriangular patch of
white on each side of the head and neck; general colour of the upper
parts brownish-grey, the feathers margined with paler, of the lower
parts pale greyish-brown, margined with yellowish-grey; abdomen and
lower tail-coverts white; hind part of back brownish-black; primary
quills and tail-feathers deep brown.
_Adult_, 25, 50.
From New Jersey to Maine, during winter. Breeds in the Arctic Regions.
Columbia River. Abundant.
Anser Hutchinsii, Hutchins's Bernacle Goose, Swains. & Rich.
F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 470.
Hutchins's Goose, Anser Hutchinsii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p.
526.
380. 3. Anser leucopsis, Bechst. Bernacle Goose.
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.
381. 4. Anser Bernicla, Linn. Brent Goose.
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.
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