Properly a brant-goose, the branta bernicla, a brownishgrey goose of the genus branta.
“For the people of the village
Saw the flock of brant with wonder.”
Longfellow: Hiawatha, part xvi. stanza 32.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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