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Goose, from the numbers that frequent Horra Sound, but 

 none remain during summer. Mr. DamVs note on this 

 species is as follows. " I could get no information re- 

 specting the Brent Goose in Lapland, it being unknown to 

 the colonists and Laps. I have seen and shot them in the 

 neighbourhood of Gottenburgh in the autumn, but they 

 are not known to pitch often except on the coast. This 

 Goose is more of a sea bird than the rest of the tribe, 

 keeping much in narrow tide ways, and feeding on the 

 drift weed. They are very abundant among the Danish 

 islands in November and December." 



The Brent Goose is found during summer at the Faroe 

 Islands, and at Iceland. Dr. Richardson says, this neat 

 small Goose is very numerous on the coast of Hudson's 

 Bay, in its passage to and from the north. Captain James 

 Ross states that it did not remain near Felix Harbour, 

 Boothia, to breed, but went still farther north ; and that 

 it is found during the summer months in the highest north- 

 ern latitudes that have been visited. It was found breed- 

 ing on Parry's Islands, in latitude 74, 75. 



Eggs brought home by some of our northern voyagers 

 were of a greyish white colour, and measured two inches 

 and three-quarters in length, by one inch and three-quarters 

 in breadth. The bird is well known to the ornithologists 

 of the United States : and Mr. Audubon says they have 

 produced their young in captivity, but the birds kept in 

 St. James's Park, and at the Zoological Gardens, do not 

 breed. 



Captain Scoresby, in his account of the Arctic Regions, 

 reports that the Brent Goose occurs in considerable num- 

 bers near the coast of Greenland; but is not seen in any 

 quantity at Spitzbergen. In K. E. Von Baer's descrip- 

 tion of Animal life in Nova Zembla, a translation of which 



