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numbers south of Juckasiervi, in Tornea Lapland, but not 

 further west than Killingsuvanda. It appears in great 

 numbers in the spring at Quickiock, but does not breed 

 there. None of the western parts of Swedish Lapland are 

 adapted either for Sandpipers or the Duck tribe, the lakes 

 being generally rocky, anjL the swamps not of sufficient 

 extent. The young ones are easily tamed, and are caught 

 in great numbers by the Laps, with the old ones in a 

 moulting state, and unable to fly, in July." In Sweden 

 Professor Nilsson says this Goose is seen from spring to 

 autumn, becoming gregarious in September and October, in 

 the marshes near the sea. Acerbi, in his Travels through 

 Finland and Lapland, mentions having shot some White - 

 fronted Geese near Kautokeino in Lapland, and it is re- 

 corded as visiting the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Green- 

 land. The White-fronted, or Laughing Goose, described 

 long ago, as well as figured by Edwards, plate 153, was 

 from a specimen brought from Hudson's Bay, where, how- 

 ever, it is not common. Of its habits in North America, 

 Sir John Richardson observes, that " the Laughing Goose 

 travels in great flocks through the fur-countries, eight or 

 ten days later than the Canada Goose, and breeds on the 

 coasts and islands of the Arctic Sea, north of the 67th 

 parallel of latitude. The autumn migration southwards 

 commences early in September ; and its return at that 

 season to the fur districts is often the first indication of 

 winter having begun within the Arctic Circle. The In- 

 dians imitate the call of this Goose by patting the mouth 

 with their hand while they repeat the syllable wah." The 

 resemblance of this note to the laugh of a man has given 

 one of the trivial names to this species. It passes on to- 

 wards the United States, in advance of the Canada Goose; 

 and Mr. Audubon says that it arrives before the latter in 

 Kentucky, where many of the species winter ; but many 



