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to make the land after leaving the Danish coast. I suspect 

 the shores of the White Sea, to the eastward, are the great 

 breeding places of this bird. They appear in vast numbers 

 on the coast of Scona in October and November, but their 

 flight is generally along the coast of the Baltic. This 

 Goose is said to visit the Faroe Islands in summer : Faber 

 includes it as a bird of Iceland ; and it is sometimes found 

 at Hudson^s Bay. It is said to breed in Russia. M. Tem- 

 minck mentions it as abundant in Holland, but less com- 

 mon in Germany and France. Polydore Roux includes it 

 among his birds of Provence. M. Temminck says that 

 this species inhabits Japan and northern Asia. 



This very prettily marked Goose has the beak, and a 

 stripe from the beak to the eye, black ; the length of the 

 beak one inch and three-eighths ; the irides dark brown ; 

 the forehead, cheeks, and chin, white ; top of the head, 

 nape, all the neck and interscapulars, black ; scapulars, 

 point of the wing, both sets of wing-coverts, and tertials, 

 French grey, tipped with a crescent of bluish-black, and an 

 extreme edge of white ; primaries almost black ; rump 

 bluish-black ; upper tail-coverts white ; tail-feathers almost 

 black ; breast and belly greyish- white ; vent and under 

 tail-coverts pure white ; flanks and thighs tinged with grey 

 in bars ; legs, toes, membranes, and claws black. 



The whole length of an adult male twenty-five inches. 

 From the blunt spur at the carpal joint to the end of the 

 first quill-feather, which is the longest in the wing, sixteen 

 inches. 



Young birds have the white of the cheeks varied with 

 black feathers ; the ends of the feathers on the back and 

 wing- co verts tinged with red ; the flanks barred with 

 darker grey, and the legs less decidedly black. 



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