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BRENT GOOSE. 



Anser brenta, FLEMING. SELBY. 



" torq-mtus, JENYNS. 



Anas bernida, PENNANT. MONTAGU. TfiMMINCK. 



Anser A Goose. Brenta ? 



THESE Geese are very plentiful in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, 

 Nova Zembla, Spitzbergen, Greenland, Iceland, and other 

 countries of the north. They visit also France, Germany, 

 Pomerania, and Holland. 



In America, Captain James Ross noticed them in different 

 places, up to the highest latitudes that have been reached, 

 and in these they breed. They are well known also in the 

 United States and Canada, and in the neighbourhood of 

 Hudson's Bay. 



With us this species is a regular winter visitor, and occurs 

 in large multitudes on any parts of the coast that are suitable 

 to them, such as those of Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent, and North- 

 umberland. 



In Yorkshire, it is met with at Sheffield, as also, though 

 rarely, in the vicinity of Leeds, and likewise, in hard winters, 

 near Doncaster, and York occasionally, the moors round 

 Huddersfield, and at the sea-side. In Cambridgeshire several 

 were shot near Wisbeach, in the beginning of 1850. In 

 Norfolk it is a common species. The ^Rev. R. P. Alington 

 has seen this bird in Louth market, the produce no doubt 

 of Lincolnshire. In Surrey one was shot at Wipley Farm, 

 near Bramley. In Cornwall, one was found dead on the 

 sands, at Gwyllyn Vase, in December, 1846. A flock visited 

 the Trent in Derbyshire, in January, 1831. 



In Scotland the Brent Goose is met with in Sutherlandshire, 

 but most so on the eastern side of the county. It is equally 

 plentiful in the Hebrides and Shetland, 



