BRANTA BERNICLA. 2a 
happened that Herr Fandrem was dining at Mr. Monk’s, and he 
told me that they were brought to Hammerfest last year by the 
‘Gerda,’ Captain Eriksen. Herr Fandrem spent last summer, as he 
intends to do this, in or near Hammerfest. He is said to be a 
worthy man. The eggs were called simply Goose eggs, but were 
said to be of the kind common in Spitsbergen, which I was told 
in Hammerfest is called the Trapp-gaas, and from all the descriptions 
T have heard it must be the Brent. It is called by the Quains 
Pikko Hanhi |Vittle Goose]. They say that Kilju-hanhi, White- 
fronted Goose, is also there, but in very small numbers, and they do 
not find its eggs. The eggs of Trapp-gaas were at one time brought 
in plenty to Hammerfest, and sold for eating at 4 skillings each. 
Now the vessels go more often to the east side of Spitsbergen, where 
the Walruses frequent, and they do not so often bring these eggs. 
Herr Carl Knoblock, of the Custom house in Hammerfest, who has 
been to Spitsbergen, tells me that the Geese and Eiders steal eggs 
from one another, carrying them under their wings! ‘‘ They are 
not bigger than hens’ eggs.” This Goose has a black head and 
neck with a white ring round the neck, but no white on the head. 
Carl Knoblock has seen a White Bear putting his fore legs round 
a nest, and shovelling up the eggs into his mouth with his two paws. 
Herr Andreas Berger, Joseph Lombasjirvi, and others with whom 
I talked could not recognize my description of Bernacle answering 
to any bird they knew in Spitsbergen. 
§ 5477. Fourteen.—Spitsbergen, 1857. 
I obtained between twenty and thirty of these eggs, all that were 
left out of fifty blown by the HH. Berger at Hammerfest, but 
dreadfully damaged by mice before they came into my hands in July 
or August. The Goose from all accounts agrees exactly with the 
Brent, and is well distinguished by the Finnish sealers from Ki/ju- 
hanhi, the White-fronted Goose. 
[At Mr. Wolley’s request, these were collected in Spitsbergen by Joseph 
Lombasjarvi (above mentioned § 5476), of the jagt ‘Hammerfest,’ and by 
him handed to the Bergers, who eventually sent them to me in England. 
Altogether twenty-six specimens reached me. Of these four were sold at 
Mr. Stevens’s rooms 23 February, 1850, to Messrs. Braikenridge, Shepherd, 
Burney, and Milner. Three more at the same place, 31 May, 1860, to 
Messrs. Marshall, Braikenridge, and Tristram. In the same year I sent one to 
Dr. Brewer, and two to Dr. Baldamus. ] 
