524 ANSER BRACHYRHYNCHUS.—BRANTA CANADENSIS. 
The particulars are recorded by me in ‘The Ibis’ for 1865 (pp. 209, 513), 
and I thereto added a notice of a nest of no doubt this species, containing two 
newly-hatched Goslings found by Ludwig 16 July, on some lowland lying 
just over the ridge which bounds the east side of Safe Haven. | 
[§ 5465. Fouwr.—Spitsbergen, 20 June, 1888. From Herr 
Foslie. 
Herr Foslie wrote to me from Tromso in the autumn of 1888, that no eggs 
of Larus eburneus had been obtained during the past summer (ef. § 4669), but 
that he had some of Anser brachyrhynchus. I asked him to send me four, 
and these arrived accordingly some time after, but he did not tell me from 
what part of the country they came, though I begged him to do so. I 
am not aware that any other species of big Goose breeds, or even occurs, in 
Spitsbergen. | 
BRANTA CANADENSIS (Linnzus). 
CANADA GOOSE. 
§ 5466. One.—St. James’s Park. From Mr, A. D. Bartlett, 
1847. 
[§ 5467. One.—Riddlesworth, Norfolk. From Mr. Thornhill, 
1846. 
A good many Canada Geese were kept about this time and for several years 
after on the water at Riddlesworth, which was an enlargement of the Little 
Ouse, and most of them, so far as I remember, had their nests on the Norfolk 
side of the river. Few, if any, of the birds were pinioned. | 
[§ 5468. One.—From Dr. Heermann, 1861. 
Dr. Heermann gave me to understand that this was laid by a wild bird, but 
he did not tell me anything of its history. ] 
[§ 5469. Zwo.—Anderson River, 22 June, 1864. “ Parent 
shot.” From the Smithsonian Institution, through 
Professor Baird. 
Sent by Mr. MacFarlane, who wrote (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p, 424) :— 
“ Nests were discovered in the vicinity of Fort Anderson and to the borders of 
the forest on the east and west sides of the river of that name, but none were 
