. . on breast, but extending in a wash over flanks and much ofbelly; broad white collar on neck, interrupted behind; lower partswhite behind. Range. — Western North America. Breeds on arctic coast and islandsfrom Point Barrow near mouth of Anderson River north to MelvilleIsland; common on Siberian coast; winters on Pacific coast from Brit-ish Columbia to Lower California; in interior to Nevada and on Asiaticcoast to Japan; recorded as a straggler to Massachusetts, New Yorkand New Jersey. Black Brant is a Pacific coast spe
. . on breast, but extending in a wash over flanks and much ofbelly; broad white collar on neck, interrupted behind; lower partswhite behind. Range. — Western North America. Breeds on arctic coast and islandsfrom Point Barrow near mouth of Anderson River north to MelvilleIsland; common on Siberian coast; winters on Pacific coast from Brit-ish Columbia to Lower California; in interior to Nevada and on Asiaticcoast to Japan; recorded as a straggler to Massachusetts, New Yorkand New Jersey. Black Brant is a Pacific coast species which breedson the coast of northeastern Siberia, northern Alaska andin the western part of the North American arctic archipel-ago, and migrates south in vast numbers along the Pacificcoast. It is accidental here. There is a single record in Mas-sachusetts of a bird taken at Chatham in the spring of 1883.^There are three New York records (Eaton). Our easternBrant is sometimes called the Black Brant, but this is anerror. 1 Cory, C. B.: Auk, 1884, p. PLATE VI.—BARNACLE GOOSE. From a photograph by W. E. Freeman, made from his painting of the onlyspecimen recorded from Massachusetts. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 193 BARNACLE GOOSE {Branta leucopsis). Length. — About 28 inches. Adult Female. — Front and sides of head, eliin and throat white; darkline from base of bill running back to eye; rest of head and neck black,the black extending on upper back and fore breast; shoulders andwing coverts gray, feathers tipped with black and white; rump andtail black; upper and under tail coverts, sides of rump, beUy and lowerbreast wliite or wliitish, the flanks shaded with gray; quills dusky. Adult Male. — Duller than female; iris hazel brown; bill, feet and clawsblack. Young. — Wliite face, speckled with black; general plumage suffused withrufous brown, more or less marked, according to age. Range. — Northern part of Old World. Breeds in northern part of easternhemis
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