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crn 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 visit the Faroe Islands in 

 summer : Faber includes it as a bird of Iceland ; and it is 

 sometimes found at Hudson's Bay. It is said to breed in 

 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 the head, nape, all the neck 

 and interscapulars, black ; scapulars, point of the wing, both 

 sets of wing-coverts, and tcrtials, French grey, tipped with a 

 crescent of bluish-black, and an extreme edge of white ; pri- 

 maries almost black ; rump bluish-black ; upper tail-coverts 

 white ; tail-feathers almost black ; breast and belly greyish- 

 white ; vent and under tail- coverts pure white ; flanks and 

 thighs tinged with grey in bars ; legs, 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-fcather, which is the longest in the wing, sixteen inches. 



Youns: birds have the white of the cheeks varied with 

 black feathers ; the ends of the feathers on the back and 



winff-coverts tinned with red ; the flanks barred with darker 



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grey, and the legs less decidedly black. 



