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known to pitch often except on the coast. This Goose is 

 more of a sea bird than the rest of the tribe, keeping much 

 in narrow tide ways, and feeding on the drift weed. They 

 are very abundant among the Danish ishinds in November 

 and December."''' 



The Brent Goose is found during summer at the Faroe 

 Islands, and at Iceland. Dr. Richardson says, this neat 

 small Goose is very numerous on the coast of Hudson's Bay, 

 in its passage to and from the north. Captain James Ross 

 states that it did not remain near Felix Harbour, Boothia, to 

 breed, but went still farther north ; and that it is found 

 during the summer months in the highest northern latitudes 

 that have been visited. It w-as found breeding on Parry"'s 

 Islands, in latitude 74°, 75°. 



Eggs brought home by some of our northern voyagers 

 Avere of a greyish white colour, and measured two inches and 

 three-quarters in length, by one inch and three-quarters in 

 breadth. The bird is well known to the ornithologists of the 

 United States : and Mr. Audubon says they have produced 

 their young in captivity. 



Captain Scorcsby, in his account of the Arctic Regions, 

 reports that the Brent Goose occurs in considerable numbers 

 near the coast of Greenland ; but is not seen in any quantity 

 at Spitzbergen. In K. E. Von Baer''s description of Animal 

 life in Nova Zembla, a translation of which appeared in the 

 fourth volume of the Annals of Natural History, it is ob- 

 served, " Among the web-footed birds which pass the season 

 here, the Bean Geese are so common, at least in the southern 

 island, that the collecting their fallen Aving-feathers is an ob- 

 ject of profit ; according to the assertions of the Walrus- 

 catchers, only one species of goose comes to Nova Zembla, 

 and we in fact got siffht of no other than the Bean Goose, 



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and the Brent Goose, whiclr latter, however, docs not pass 

 for a goose among the Russians. The web-footed herbi- 



