Mr. A. Newton on the Anas (Anser) e pus. 453 
tauda cinerea; pectus et abdomen candida: macule in sterno ni- 
ntes: Pedes sanguinei.” 
It is therefore plain that by Anas erythropus Linneus did not 
intend to designate the Bernicle Goose, but a bird known in his 
time to the Swedes of Westro-Bothnia by the name of Fjzll-gas— 
t.e. “Fell” or “ Mountain Goose.” It accordingly remains to be 
seen what that species is. 
It appears by the note-books of the late Mr. John Wolley, which 
are now in my possession, that in all his researches he was able to find 
only two species of Wild Goose inhabiting the extensive district in 
Lapland which he so carefully explored, and of which part was com- 
prehended in the ancient province of Westro-Bothnia. These species 
are known to the Finns, who form the great bulk of the population, 
respectively as the ‘‘ Iso-hanhi” and “ Killio-hanhi,’ the former 
ignifying “‘ Great Goose,” the latter ‘‘ Mountain Goose.’ The Iso- 
havhi he had several opportunities of identifying as the well-known 
Bean Goose (Anser segetum) ; the other he found, somewhat to his 
surprise, to be, not, as he had been told by Swedish ornithologists, 
the Bernicle Goose, but a bird of about that size, and at the same 
time closely resembling, in plumage and other physical characters, the 
White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons). Not to extend the present 
remarks, I may state briefly that he was not able to discover that 
the Bernicle Goose was known to any of the inhabitants of the 
interior of the country,—a statement which is singularly corroborated 
by Mr. Dann’s note communicated to Mr. Yarrell (B. B. iii. p. 73) 
in reference to the last-named species :—‘‘A skin of this Goose was 
shown me by some Laps near Gillivara, who were ignorant of the 
bird, never having seen it before. It was shot at Killingsuvanda.” 
Accordingly, in the Catalogue of his Eggs sold by Mr. Stevens in 
1856, he stated, under the head of “ Anas aléifrons,’” that “ this 
interesting bird is the proper Fjell-gas of the Swedes, which name 
has, however, been applied to the Bernicle in their works on Natural 
History. The Lapland specimens seem to be of the small-sized race, 
which has been named Anser minutus by Naumann.”’ I must here 
take exception to part of Mr. Wolley’s statement, some Swedish 
writers being quite aware that the “ Fjell-Gas”’ was not Anser leu- 
copsis, as, for instance, Professor Zetterstedt, in the account of his 
travels in Lapland * (vol. ii. p. 161). 
In the Catalogue of his Eggs sold in the following year (1857), 
Mr. Wolley further identified ‘‘the only White-fronted Geese which 
breed in Lapland,” with the Anser finmarchicus of Bishop Gunner, 
described in one of the notes (pp. 264-5) of Professor Leem’s great 
‘work t, “‘ as distinct from the larger White-fronted Goose.’ 
I can only say that I entirely coincide with the views thus ex- 
pressed by Mr. Wolley, while I also identify the “ Killio-hanhit”’ or 
* «Resa genom Sweriges och Norriges Lappmarker, af Joh. Wilh. Zetterstedt.’ 
Two vols. 8vyo. Lund, 1822. 
T ‘Canuti Leemii de Lapponibus Finmarchie Commentatio, una cum J. E. 
Gunneri notis, &c. &c.’ Kjébenhavn, 1767. 
~~ In Europzus’s “‘ Svenskt-Finskt Handlexikon” (Helsingfors, 1853), the word 
is-spelled “ Kallio” (vide page 42, sub voce ‘ Berg.’). 
