76 WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 



saw was raised from a rushy upland sheep-pasture, 

 where, after a few turns, it again alighted, and 

 we procured the specimen which will serve for the 

 following description. We do not know its range 

 further nortn in Scotland, but it does not seem to 

 reach the extreme northern coasts, nor to be met 

 with in the islands. In Ireland it is frequent. On 

 the continent the White- fronted Goose extends 

 south to Italy, * but it becomes more frequent in its 

 range northward, and is abundant in Sweden ; in 

 Lapland also it is common, breeding in both coun- 

 tries. Out of Europe, Japan is given to it by Tem- 

 minck, and the specimens from Northern and Arctic 

 America have been considered identical by all our 

 authorities upon the ornithology of that continent. 

 Dr. Richardson states that its breeding-places are 

 the woody districts skirting the Mackenzie, to the 

 north of the sixty-seventh parallel, and also the 

 islands in the Arctic Sea, to which it regularly 

 passes through the two countries in large flocks, t 

 Audubon met with them in Kentucky, and high on 

 the Arkanzas river ; their flocks seldom exceeded 

 above thirty or forty, and he considered them as 

 by far the least shy of the species which are in- 

 digenous to or that visit that country. They are 

 considered there as " delicious eating." 



Head and neck yellowish clove-brown, or dark 

 wood-brown, the under eyelid paler, and the fore- 

 head or base of the bill yellowish white, separated 

 from the colour of the head by a darker line, which 

 * M. Savi. f Northern Zoology, p. 466. 



