. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . Stephensto this genus, is barbarous, I feel unwilling to adopt another,simply because I cannot find a better. The Anas Berniclaof Linnseus seems to include both the Bernicle Goose andBrent Goose of British authors; and as some have takenthe former to be Anas erythropus of Linnseus, while othersname it Anser leucopsis, and the Brent Goose Anser
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . Stephensto this genus, is barbarous, I feel unwilling to adopt another,simply because I cannot find a better. The Anas Berniclaof Linnseus seems to include both the Bernicle Goose andBrent Goose of British authors; and as some have takenthe former to be Anas erythropus of Linnseus, while othersname it Anser 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 Bechsteinand 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. CLARIS. CLAIK-GOOSE. BARNACLE. WHITE-CHEEKED Fig. 58. Anas Bernicla. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. erythropus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. Goose. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Bernache. Anas leucopsis. Temm. Man. dOrnith. II. Bernache. Anser leucopsis. Temm. Man. dOrnith. IV. Goose, or Clakis. Anser Bernicla. Selby, Illustr. II. leucopsis. Common Bernicle. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. leucopsis. Bonap. Comp. List, 55. Male tiventy-seven inches long; bill small, much shorterthan the head, an inch and a third in length, black; tarsustwo inches and ten-tic elfths in length, black; the fore part ofthe head, its sides, and the throat white; hind head and neckglossy black; fore and hind parts of back black; its middlepart, the scapida
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