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ern coast of Norway, from the Naze of Norway northwards,
where it generally seems to make the land after leaving the
Danish coast. I suspect the shores of the White sea, to the
eastward, are the great breeding places of this bird. They
appear in vast numbers on the coast of Scona in October and
November, but their flight is generally along the coast of the
Baltic. This Goose is said to; s fa it; the Faroe Islands in
summer: Faber includes it as a bird of Iceland;- and it is
sometimes found at Hudson's Bay. I t is said to breed m
Russia. M. Temminck mentions it as abundant in Holland,
but less common in Germany and France. Polydore Roux
includes it among his birds of Provence. M. Temminck says
that this species inhabits Japan and northern Asia.
This very prettily marked Goose has the beak, and a stripe
from the beak to the eye, black; the length of the beak one
inch and three eighths ; the irides dark' brown; the forehead,
cheeks, and chin, white; top of thé héad, nape, all the neck
and interscapulars, black; scapulars, point of the wing, both
sets of wing-coverts, and tertials, French grey, tipped with a
crescent of bluish-black, and an extreme edge of white ; primaries
almost black; rump bluish-black; upper tail-coVertS
tvhite; tail-feathers almost black; breast and belly greyish*-
white; vent and under tail-coverts pure white; flanks and
thighs tinged with grey in bars ; logs, toes, membranes, and
claws black.
The whole length of an adult male twenty-five inches'.
From the blunt spur at the carpal joint to the end of the first
quill-feather, which is thé longest in the wing, sixteen inches*
Young birds have the white of the cheeks varied with
black feathers; the ends of the feathers on the back, and
wing-coverts tinged with red; the flanks barred with darker
grey, and the legs less decidedly black.
KATATORES. ANAT1DJE.
T H E B R EN T GOOSE.
Ana*, bernicla, - Brent Goose,
Anser brenta, , , ____, ,
,, torquatus, ,, ,,
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Anas berniclay Oie cravant,
Anser ,, » »».
P enn. B rit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 239.
Mont. Ornith. Diet.
Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p.-317.
Flem. Brit. An. p. 127.
Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 271.
J enyns, Brit. V e rt. p . 224.
Gould, Birds of Europe, p t rv ii.
Temm. Man. d’Ornith. vol. ii. p. 824.
» i, „ pt. iv. p. 522.
Of the various species of geese that visit the British Islands,
this is the smallest as well as the most numerous, and
possesses also for us the agreeable advantage of being a good
bird for the table. I t is a regular winter visiter to the shores
of most of olir maritime counties, and remains with us through