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WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 
WHITE-FRONTED WILD GOOSE. LAUGHING GOOSE. 
Anser albifrons, JENYNS. 
“  erythropus, FLEMING. 
Anas albifrons, PENNANT. Montagu. 
Anser—A Goose. Albifrons. Albus—White. Frons—The forehead. 
THE Laughing Goose is the common species in Sweden and 
the other countries of old Scandinavia—Lapland, Norway, 
and Denmark; and visits also the southern parts of Russia, 
Poland, Prussia, France, Germany, Italy, and Holland. 
It belongs too to some parts of Asia—Japan, according to 
Temminck, Siberia, and the neighbourhood of the Caspian 
Sea; and likewise to America, moving, at the different seasons 
of the year, to and from the regions within the Arctic circle 
and the United States, through the Fur Countries. 
They breed in Tornea Lapland, or Lapmark, a province of 
Sweden; also in Iceland. 
In this country they have occurred in greater or less 
numbers in Northumberland, Durham, Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent, 
Hampshire, Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall; 
in fact, no doubt, though they have made no ‘matches’ here, 
they belong to ‘All England.’ Meyer mentions one shot by 
him in February, 1847, on the Thames, near London. 
In Ireland, also, and in Wales, as likewise in Scotland, 
where Sir William Jardine has met with it in Dumfriesshire, 
and in the market at Edinburgh. 
They frequent marshes and morasses, ponds, and other 
damp and watery places. 
This species is occasionally seen in Northamptonshire, as 
