. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . tephensto this genus, is barbarous, I feel unwilling to adopt another,simply because I cannot find a better. The Anas Berniclaof Linnscus seems to include both the Bernicle Goose andBrent Goose of British authors; and as some have takenthe former to be Anas erythropus of Linnaeus, while othersname it Auser leucopsis, and the Brent Goose Anser Be
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . tephensto this genus, is barbarous, I feel unwilling to adopt another,simply because I cannot find a better. The Anas Berniclaof Linnscus seems to include both the Bernicle Goose andBrent Goose of British authors; and as some have takenthe former to be Anas erythropus of Linnaeus, while othersname it Auser leucopsis, and the Brent Goose Anser Ber-nicla ; and as the extrication of all this confusion is worthno ones while, seeing the birds are common and can bedescribed at length, and named anew or reasonably, I thinkit best to call the Bernicle, Bernicla leucopsis, as Bechstcinand Temminck have done, and the Brent, Bernicla Brenta,as some have named it, although melanopsis would be a muchbetter name, it having an entirely black head and face. Withsuch names, all others being discarded, it is quite impossiblethat the student should fall into any mistake. 622 BERNICLA LEUCOPSIS. THE WHITE-FACEDBERNICLE-GOOSE. CLAIKIS. CLAKIS. CLAIK-GOOSE. BARNACLE. A\ Fio. 58. Anas Bcmicla. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. erythropus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. IL Goose. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Bernache. Anas leucopsis. Temm. Man. dOrnith. IL Bernache. Anser leucopsis. Temm. I^Ian. dOrnith. IV. Goose, or Clakis. Anser Bernicla. Sclby, lUustr. II. leucopsis. Common Bernicle. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. leucopsis. Bonap. Comp. List, oo. Male twenty-seven inches lone/; hill small, much shorterthan the head, an inch and a tliird in length, black; tarsustwo iiicJies and ten-ticelftJis In length, black; the fore imrt ofthe head, its sides, a)id the throat n-Jtite; hind head and neckglossy black; fore and hind parts of back black; its middlejmrt, the scapu
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