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and with the legs of A. ferns. A. alhifrons occurs every winter 

 and sometimes numerously in England- 

 No. 5. A. erythropuH. I first showed the identity of A. minutus 

 with the bird originally described by Linnseus (P. Z. S., 1860, 

 June 26). Except A. segetum, it is the only goose that breeds in 

 the interior of Lapland, and it seems also to breed a good deal to 

 the eastward — in Russia, for instance. I do not know of any in- 

 stance of its occurring in England, but apparently they catch it 

 occasionally in Holland. Saunders has seen it in Italy (Ibis. 

 1869, p. 395), and I think some one met with it on the Nile. 



Yours, very truly, 



ALFRED NEWTON. 

 Elliott Coues, Esq., M. D. 



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