. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . on breast, but extending in a wash over flanks and much ofbelly; broad white collar on neck, interrupted behind; lower partswhite behind. Range. — Western North America. Breeds on arctic coast and islandsfrom Point Barrow near mout
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . on breast, but extending in a wash over flanks and much ofbelly; broad white collar on neck, interrupted behind; lower partswhite behind. Range. — Western North America. Breeds on arctic coast and islandsfrom Point Barrow near mouth of Anderson River north to MelvilleIsland; common on Siberian coast; winters on Pacific coast from Brit-ish Columbia to Lower California; in interior to Nevada and on Asiaticcoast to Japan; recorded as a straggler to Massachusetts, New Yorkand New Jersey. History. The Black Brant is a Pacific coast species which breedson the coast of northeastern Siberia, northern Alaska andin the western part of the North American arctic archipel-ago, and migrates south in vast numbers along the Pacificcoast. It is accidental here. There is a single record in Mas-sachusetts of a bird taken at Chatham in the spring of 1883.^There are three New York records (Eaton). Our easternBrant is sometimes called the Black Brant, but this is anerror. 1 Cory, C. B.: Auk, 1884, p. PLATE VI. —BARNACLE GOOSE. From a photograph by W. E. Freeman, made from his painting of the onlyspecimen recorded from Massachusetts. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 193 BARNACLE GOOSE (Branta leucopsis). Length. — About 28 inches. Adult Female. — Front and sides of head, eliin and throat white; darkline from base of bill running back to eye; rest of head and neck black,the black extending on upper back and fore breast; shoulders andwing coverts gray, feathers tipped with black and white; rump andtail black; upper and under tail coverts, sides of rump, belly and lowerbreast white or wliitish, the flanks shaded with
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