. Important American game birds; their ranges, habits and the hunting . brant is a western bird, and follows the Pacific Coast as itsBLACK BRANT eastern relative follows the Atlantic. It breeds on the Arctic Coast ofNorth America and on islands from Point Barrow east to near the mouth ofthe Anderson River, and is common on the Siberian Coast, the Chukchi Peninsula, and asfar west as the New Siberian Islands. No one knows either how far its range extends to thenorth or where its eastward distribution on those Arctic islands ends and that of the common brantbegins. Explorers have seen brant in m
. Important American game birds; their ranges, habits and the hunting . brant is a western bird, and follows the Pacific Coast as itsBLACK BRANT eastern relative follows the Atlantic. It breeds on the Arctic Coast ofNorth America and on islands from Point Barrow east to near the mouth ofthe Anderson River, and is common on the Siberian Coast, the Chukchi Peninsula, and asfar west as the New Siberian Islands. No one knows either how far its range extends to thenorth or where its eastward distribution on those Arctic islands ends and that of the common brantbegins. Explorers have seen brant in many parts of the Arctic seas, but often have been unable todetermine the species. The black brant winters on the Pacific Coast of North America, from BritishColumbia south to Lower California, in the interior of Oregon and Nevada, and on the Pacific Coastof Asia south to Japan. It is casual on our Atlantic Coast. The birds often called brant in the MiddleWest are not brant, as .the term is applied there to several small geese. , 27 IMPORTANT AMERICAN- GAME ■ BIRDS. GREATER YELLOW-LEGS See page 37 GOLDEN PLOVER See page 41 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER See page 41 IMPORTANT AMERICAN • GAME • BIRDS
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