406 Mr. A. Newtou on the Anas erythropus of Linnceus. 



vanda." Accordingly, in the Catalogue of his Eggs sold by 

 Mr. Stevens in 1856, he stated, under the head of "Anas albi- 

 frons," that '' this interesting bird is the proper Fjell-gas of the 

 Swedes, which name has, however, been applied to the Bernicle 

 in their works on Natural History. The Lapland specimens 

 seem to be of the small-sized race, which has been named Anser 

 minutus by Naumann." I must here take exception to part 

 of Mr. Wolley's statement, some Swedish writers being quite 

 aware that the " Fjsell-gas" was not Anser leucopsis, as, for in- 

 stance, Professor Zetterstedt, in the account of his travels in 

 Lapland* (vol. ii. p. 161). 



In the Catalogue of his Eggs sold in the following year 

 (1857), Mr. Wolley further identified " the only White-fronted 

 Geese which breed in Lapland " with the Anser finmarchicus of 

 Bishop Gunner, described in one of the notes (pp. 264-5) of 

 Professor Leem's great workt "as distinct from the larger 

 White-fronted Goose." 



I can only say that I entirely coincide with the views thus 

 expressed by Mr. Wolley, while I also identify the " Killio- 

 hanhij" or "Fjsell-gas" with the Anas enjthropus of Linnaeus; 

 and I here subjoin a concise summary of the principal synonyms 

 of this bird. 



Anser erythropus (Linn.). 



Anas [Ansei') erythrojms, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 

 vol. i. part 1. p. 197 (non auct.). 



Anser finmarchicus, Gunner, in Leemii de Lappon. Comm. 

 notis (1767), p. 264. 



Anser temminckii, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 882. 



Anser minutus, Naum. Naturgesch. derVog. Deutschl. (1842) 

 vol. xi. p. 365, tab. 290. 



* ' Resa genom Svveriges och Norriges Lappmarker, af Joh.Wilh. Zet- 

 terstedt.' Two vols. 8vo. Lund. 1822. 



t ' Canuti Leemii de LapiJonibus Finmarchia; Commentatio, una cum 

 J. E. Gunneri notis, &c. &c.' Kjobenhavn, 1767- 



X In Europseus' " Svenskt-Finskt Handlexikon" (Ilelsingfors, 1853), 

 the word is spelled " Kallio" {vide page 42, sub voce ' Berg '). 



