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BERNICLE GOOSE, 



CLAKIS. TREE GOOSE. COMMON BERWICLE GOOSE, 

 BARNACLE GOOSE. 



Anser beriiickt, FLEMING. SBLBY. 



leucnpsis, JENYNS. GOULD. 



Anas leucnpsis, TEMMINCK. 



" eryihropus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Anser A Goose. Bernicla The Barnacle. 



THIS species is abundant in Russia, Lapland, and Spitzbergen, 

 and on many of the shores of the Baltic, Sweden, Denmark, 

 and Finland, Norway, Jutland, and Holstein; and occurs 

 besides in the Faroe Islands and Iceland. It is also plentiful 

 in Holland, and is met with in Germany and France. In 

 Asia, it appears to belong to the northern districts, and to 

 Japan, and in America has been found at Hudson's Bay, and 

 in Canada, as also, though less numerously, in the United States. 



In Yorkshire, two were killed on Midgley Moor, September 

 2nd., 1836. In hard weather specimens are frequently shot 

 near Doncaster, and some are taken occasionally in the 

 neighbourhood of Huddersfield, on the Marsden, Slaithwaite, 

 Meltham, and Holmfirth Moors; others, at times, near York. 

 It is rare near Leeds, but one was shot at Rigton, in 

 1837. It may be met with in winter weather on the shores 

 of the Humber. Another out of a flock of nine, was killed 

 in Coatham Marsh, near Redcar, on the 1st. of October, 1853. 



One was seen in the Louth market, by the Rev. R. P. 

 Alington, no doubt of Lincolnshire occurrence. It used to 

 be met with in the Cambridgeshire Fens, in greater or less 

 plenty, according to the season. 



In Norfolk, a pair were procured at Salthouse, in January, 

 1848: the species is not uncommon in that county in the 

 winter. 



In Scotland, it is- an occasional visitor, and occurs on the 



