ANSER BRACHYRHYNCHUS. 523 
which breeds in Spitsbergen, and that gentleman, though unwilling to admit 
its specific validity, acquiesced in my decision (op. cit. 1864, pp. 396, 412), as 
will immediately be seen. | 
[§ 5463. Zwo—Middlehook, Ice Sound, Western Spitsbergen, 
10 July, 1864. ‘Hen shot. A.J.M.” From Herr 
A. J. Malmgren. 
Given to me at our anchorage in Safe Haven, on the 14th, by Herr Malmgren, 
whom, with Professor (since Baron) Nordenskjéld, I had the pleasure of 
meeting the day before at Advent Bay. Lvoking then at some of his spoils 
I saw the wings of a big Goose freshly shot and cut off. They had light grey 
shoulders, and I began to think that Messrs. Evans and Sturge were right in 
thinking it was the Grey Lag Goose that they had met with in Spitsbergen. 
IT asked Herr Malmgren whether he had shot this bird, and he told me he had, 
and that it was Anser segetum. Ithen asked if he had the head and legs, the 
body was lying there, and he was kind enough to shew them to me. The legs 
were flesh-coloured, but the moment I saw the head it was plain that the 
species was A. brachyrhynchus, whose breeding-quarters we had so long been 
wanting to know with certainty. We had not then much time for conversation, 
for we had to be off with the prospect of a long day’s boat-voyage before us to 
Safe Haven through a thick fog and heavy ice; but I told him I was sure it 
was A. brachyrhynchus, a species he said he did not know. The next morning 
I went on board the Swedish Expedition’s schooner, and Herr Malmgren was 
good enough to shew me some very interesting specimens, first of which was 
another perfect and undoubted A. brachyrhynchus, which he was in the act of 
skinning. I found he had been consulting Nilsson’s ‘Svenska Foglar’ 
(ii. p. 401), which lay open at the place before him, and he was quite ready to 
agree that I was right in my determination of the species. That evening he, 
with Professors Nordenskjéld and Dunér, came to dine on board the ‘ Sultana,’ 
and he was so kind as to bring and give me these two valuable specimens, 
writing on them in my presence:—‘ Af Anser brachyrhynchus, tagen p& 
Mittelhook i Ice-sound p& Spetsbergen under en hona som blef skjuten den 
10 Juli 1864 af A. J. Mgrn.” (Cf Ibis, 1865, pp. 209, 210, 518 et segq.) 
[§ 5464. One.—Advent Bay, Ice Sound, W. Spitsbergen, 
AvonlyeeeGat) “SAR a Mi) Prom’ Herr As J: 
Malmgren. 
This egg was given by Herr Malmgren to my fellow-guest on board the 
‘Sultana,’ the late Mr. Graham Manners-Sutton, who was kind enough to let 
me become its possessor. I believe it came from the nest off which 
Mr. Malmgren shot the bird which I saw him in the act of skinning. At any 
rate he wrote in his second paper on the Birds of Spitsbergen (Cfvers. K. 
Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1864, p. 398) that he shot a hen Anser brachyrhynchus from the 
nest on the day named in the inscription he put on the egg. 
