. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. Fk;. IS;}. Emperor Goose. 1 250. Genus BRAIfTA Scopoli. *5f* Bill and feet black; head and neck black, with white spaces. ^Jj Barnacle Goose. Blackish; tail coverts, sides of rump, forehead, sides of head, and throat, white; interscapulars and wing coverts bluish-gray; under parts plumbeous-white ; 28 ; wing 17 ; tarsus 2|; bill 1|. Europe ; ve
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. Fk;. IS;}. Emperor Goose. 1 250. Genus BRAIfTA Scopoli. *5f* Bill and feet black; head and neck black, with white spaces. ^Jj Barnacle Goose. Blackish; tail coverts, sides of rump, forehead, sides of head, and throat, white; interscapulars and wing coverts bluish-gray; under parts plumbeous-white ; 28 ; wing 17 ; tarsus 2|; bill 1|. Europe ; very rare or merely casual in N. Am. Bd., Am. Nat. ii, 49 (Hudson's Bay) ; Lawe., ibid, v, 10 (North Carolina). NuTT., ii, 355 ; Aud., vi, 200, pi. 378 ; Bd., 768 LEUCOPSis. Brant Goose. Head, neck, body anteriorly, quills and tail, black; a small patch of white streaks on the middle of the neck, and usually white touches on the under eyelid and chin ; upper tail coverts white ; back brown- ish-gray; under parts the same, but paler, and fading into white on the lower belly and crissum; black of jugulum well defined against the color of the Y^^:. Fig. 184. a, Braut Goose; 6, var. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Salem [Mass. ] Naturalists' Agency; New York, Dodd and Mead; [etc. , etc. ,]
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