403 TEN YEAES IN SWEDEN. 



are very apparent in albifrons, are in minutus very 

 small, and cannot be seen when the beak is closed. 

 Legs red; beak rosy red, with a brown nail; all the 

 primaries have white shafts ; the second longest, first 

 and third alike, and a little shorter; tail sixteen 

 feathers, length 22 in. ; beak from forehead 1 in. 2 1., 

 6 1. high, and 6 1. broad ; tarsns 2 in. 4 1. 

 This is the common fell goose of Sweden, and the only 

 one which breeds on the Lap fells. Both the bean and this 

 goose breed in Lapland, and they are the only two that do 

 so in the interior of the country ; but the bean goose, as 

 I have before remarked, never breeds on the fells. The 

 Lap name for this goose is " kasak," on account of its pecu- 

 liar cry. The egg is ivory white when clean (but I have 

 observed that they are generally very dirty), 2-j in. long 

 by ll in. 



Well figured by Dr. Bree as " the little white-fronted 

 goose." 



2. Bernicla. 



Beak shorter than head ; lamellae not apparent when the 

 beak is closed. 



254. A. LEUCOPSIS, Bechst. Hvit Kinkad Gas. The Ber- 



nicle Goose. D. F. 



Beak and legs black ; forehead, sides of the head, and 

 throat white ; crown of the head and neck black ; mantle 

 ash blue, with blackish spots ; shoulders and back, 

 rump and tail black ; belly, breast, upper and under tail 

 coverts white; length 2 ft. ; beak 1 in. 1 1. ; tarsus 2 in. 

 4 1. ; tail 4 in. 4 1., equal with the closed wings ; sixteen 

 tail feathers. 



Only a bird of passage through Scandinavia, to and from 

 their breeding haunts, either in Spitzbergen, Greenland, or 

 on the shores of the White Sea. The egg much resembles 

 that of the last, but is smaller. I have received them from 

 Greenland, never from Scandinavia, nor do I fancy it breeds 

 in this country. 



