Identifier: CompanionGoulds00Digg (find matches)
Title: Companion to Gould's Handbook; or, Synopsis of the birds of Australia. Containing nearly one-third of the whole, or about 220 examples, for the most part from the original drawings
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Diggles, Silvester Gould, John, 1804-1881. Handbook to the birds of Australia
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Brisbane, Thorne & Greenwell
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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BERNICLA JUBATA Ivlanad Goose BEENICLA JUBATA. (Maned Goose.) Male.—Head and neck, deep brown ; behind the neck, a mane of deep black ; the under eyelid, clothed with minute white feathers ; upperpart of the back, deep grey, with darker lunate markings; lower portion of the back and the tail, deep black; breast, light creamy grey, eachfeather margined at the eye with intense black, giving that part a spotted appearance; the tip of each feather, whitish, delicately spotted withblack, which feature is continued to a considerable extent down the abdomen, the centre part of which is jet black; the flanks are beautifullyand regularly barred with minute stripes of black on a light grey ground; under tail coverts, black; shoulder and upper wing coverts, reddishgrey, followed by a stripe of white; secondaries, bright metallic green for about one-third their length, and terminating with pure white forthe remainder; primaries, deep brown at the tip ; inner webs, externally, black; tertiaries,

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