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BRENT GOOSE. 
Anser brenta, FLEMING. SELBY. 
“ — torquatus, JENYNS. 
Anas bernicla, PENNANT. MONTAGU. TEMMINCK. 
Anser—A Goose. Brenta—....cccccees ? 
THESE Geese are very plentiful in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, 
Nova Zembla, Spitzbergen, Greenland, Iceland, and other 
countries of the north. They visit also France, Germany, 
Pomerania, and Holland. 
In America, Captain James Ross noticed them in different 
places, up to the highest latitudes that have been reached, 
and in these they breed. They are well known also in the 
United States and Canada, and in the neighbourhood of 
Hudson’s Bay. 
With us this species is a regular winter visitor, and occurs 
in large multitudes on any parts of the coast that are suitable 
to them, such as those of Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent, and North- 
umberland. 
In Yorkshire, it is met with at Sheffield, as also, though 
rarely, in the vicinity of Leeds, and likewise, in hard winters, 
near Doncaster, and York occasionally, the moors round 
Huddersfield, and at the sea-side. In Cambridgeshire several, 
were shot near Wisbeach, in the beginning of 1850. In 
Norfolk it is a common species. The Rev. R. P. Alington 
has seen this bird in Louth market, the produce no doubt 
of Lincolnshire. In Surrey one was shot at Wipley Farm, 
near Bramley. In Cornwall, one was found dead on the 
sands, at Gwyllyn Vase, in December, 1546. A flock visited 
the Trent in Derbyshire, in January, 1831. 
In Scotland the Brent Goose is met with in Sutherlandshire, 
but most so on the eastern side of the county. It is equally 
plentiful in the Hebrides and Shetland. 
