. An illustrated manual of British birds . d to give the alarm. Some interesting details respecting thisspecies are to be found in The Birds of Cumberland, by and Duckworth. Its name is attributable to the vulgarbelief that this species and the Brent were hatched from bernacles{LepadidcT) attached to logs of wood floating in the sea, as describedin Gerards Herbal (1597), as well as in a paper published by theRoyal Society in 1678. The adult has a black stripe between the eye and the bill, whilethe head, neck and throat are also black ; forehead, cheeks andchin white; mantle l
. An illustrated manual of British birds . d to give the alarm. Some interesting details respecting thisspecies are to be found in The Birds of Cumberland, by and Duckworth. Its name is attributable to the vulgarbelief that this species and the Brent were hatched from bernacles{LepadidcT) attached to logs of wood floating in the sea, as describedin Gerards Herbal (1597), as well as in a paper published by theRoyal Society in 1678. The adult has a black stripe between the eye and the bill, whilethe head, neck and throat are also black ; forehead, cheeks andchin white; mantle lavender-grey, barred with bluish-black andwhite ; quills and tail-feathers almost black; breast and bellygreyish ; vent and tail-coverts pure white ; flanks barred with grey ;bill, legs and feet black. Length about 25 in. ; wing 16 in. Thefemale is slightly smaller than the male. The young bird has thewhite of the cheeks varied with black, rufous edges to the feathersof the mantle, darker bars on the flanks, and paler legs. .199. ^^vV ^^^r^ /Ote -^ ..i^ THE BRENT brknta (Pallas). The Brent is the most numerous and generally distributed of theGeese which visit us ; and, in varying numbers, is found on ourcoasts—particularly the east and south—throughout the coldmonths of the year. Unless wounded, it is seldom seen on inlandwaters, and it passes a great part of the day and night at sea ; whileat other times it frequents the extensive mud-flats and sand-bars onthe shore which are exposed at every ebb-tide. Large flocks resortto the vicinity of Holy Island on the Northumbrian coast, andmultitudes have been observed in some seasons on the Cromartyand Dornoch Firths. In the Orkneys and Shetlands, however, it isunfrequent; while in the Hebrides and along the west side ofScotland it is far less abundant and less regular in its visits than theBernacle. Vast quantities occur in many places on the shores ofIreland. In cold weather the Brent Goose migrates to t
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