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BERNICLE GOOSE. 
CLAKIS. TREE GOOSE. COMMON BERNICLE GOOSE. 
BARNACLE GOOSE. , 
Anser bernicla, FLEMING. SELBY. 
** — leucopsis, JENYNS. GOULD. 
Anas leucopsis, TEMMINCK. 
“<  erythropus, PENNANT. Monracu. 
Anser—A Goose. Bernicla—The Barnacle. 
THIS species is abundant in Russia, Lapland, and Spitzbercen, 
and on many of the shores of the Baltic, Sweden, Denmarx, 
and Finland, Norway, Jutland, and Holstein; and occurs 
besides in the Faroe Islands and Iceland. It is also plentiful 
in Holland, and is met with in Germany and France. In 
Asia, it appears to belong to the northern districts, and to 
Japan, and in America has been found at Hudson’s Bay, and 
in Canada, as also, though less numerously, in the United States. 
In Yorkshire, two were killed on Midgley Moor, September 
2nd., 1886. In hard weather specimens are frequently shot 
near Doncaster, and some are taken occasionally in the 
neighbourhood of Huddersfield, on the Marsden, Slaithwaite, 
Meltham, and Holmfirth Moors; others, at times, near York. 
It is rare near Leeds, but one was shot at Rigton, in 
1837. It may be met with in winter weather on the shores 
of the Humber. Another out of a flock of nine, was killed 
in Coatham Marsh, near Redear, on the Ist. of October, 1853. 
One was seen in the Louth market, by the Rev. R. P. 
Alington, no doubt of Lincolnshire occurrence. It used to 
be met with in the Cambridgeshire Fens, in greater or less 
plenty, according to the season. 
In Norfolk, a pair were procured at Salthouse, in January, 
1848: the species is not uncommon in that county in the 
winter. 
In Scotland, it is an occasional visitor, and occurs on the 
