12S 



WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 



WHITE-FRONTED WILD GOOSE. LAUGHING GOOSE. 



Anser afbifrons, JEXYNS. 



" erythropus, FLEMING. 



Anas albifrons, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Anser A Goose. Albifrons. Albus White. From The forehead. 



TIIE Laughing Goose is the common species in Sweden and 

 the other countries of old Scandinavia Lapland, Norway, 

 and Denmark; and visits also the southern parts of Russia, 

 Poland, Prussia, France, Germany, Italy, and Holland. 



It belongs too to some parts of Asia Japan, according to 

 Temminck, Siberia, and the neighbourhood of the Caspian 

 Sea; and likewise to America, moving, at the different seasons 

 of the year, to and from the regions within the Arctic circle 

 and the United States, through the Fur Countries. 



They breed in Tornea Lapland, or Lapmark, a province of 

 Sweden ; also in Iceland. 



In this country they have occurred in greater or less 

 numbers in Northumberland, Durham, Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent, 

 Hampshire, Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall; 

 in fact, no doubt, though they have made no 'matches' here, 

 they belong to 'All England.' Meyer mentions one shot by 

 him in February, 1847, on the Thames, near London. 



In Ireland, also, and in Wales, as likewise in Scotland, 

 where Sir William Jardine has met with it in Dumfriesshire, 

 and in the market at Edinburgh. 



They frequent marshes and morasses, ponds, and other 

 damp and watery places. 



This species is occasionally seen in Northamptonshire, as 



