. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . ANAS BERNICLA. BRANT, OR BRENT. ILSON considers the brant and barnaclegoose the same bird. Large flocks ofthese fowl arrive on the coast of Jerseyin the latter part of September or earlyin October. They remain in these re-gions till the weather gets very cold, andthen move off to the South. They feedon shell-fish and marine vegetables: theirflesh is sedgy, and often extremely markets are crowded with brant inautumn and spring, and they sell for a mere t
. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . ANAS BERNICLA. BRANT, OR BRENT. ILSON considers the brant and barnaclegoose the same bird. Large flocks ofthese fowl arrive on the coast of Jerseyin the latter part of September or earlyin October. They remain in these re-gions till the weather gets very cold, andthen move off to the South. They feedon shell-fish and marine vegetables: theirflesh is sedgy, and often extremely markets are crowded with brant inautumn and spring, and they sell for a mere trifle. They have ahoarse, honking, disagreeable note, and may be heard at a greatdistance. They are shy birds, and fly high and in long lines. Great numbers of brant are killed about Long Island by shoot-ers concealed in batteries somewhat similar to those used on theChesapeake Bay for the capture of canvas-backs. Those shotlate m the spring are much better eating than at any other attempts have been made to domesticate them, but, 381. 382 LEWISS AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. owing to their wild and wandering disposition, but little has beenaccomplished towards this end. DESCRIPTION. The brant generally weighs about four pounds avoirdupois,and measures two feet in length and three feet six inches in ex-tent; the bill is about an inch and a half long, and black; thenostril large, placed nearly in its middle; head, neck, and breastblack, the neck marked with a spot of white about two inches belowthe eye; belly pale ash, edged with white; from the thighs back-wards, white; back and wing-coverts dusky brownish-black, theplumage lightest at the tips; rump and middle of the tail-covertablack; the rest of the tail-coverts pure white, reaching nearly tothe tip of the tail, the whole of which is black, but usually con-cealed by the white coverts; primaries and secondaries deep black;legs also black; irides dark hazel. The only material difference observable between the plumageof
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