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over a great part, at any rate, of Spits- 

 bergen. Its breeding-habits do not differ, 

 so far as my observation goes, from those 

 of A. erythropus or A. segetum. Like 

 these birds, it seldom, on the mainland, 

 nests by the sea, but retires inland, and 

 chooses for its nest some elevated point 

 overlooking a stream or lake. Occasion- 

 ally it nests upon small islands, and a 

 female bird, with its nest, eggs, and the 

 surrounding turf, now in the National 

 Collection, was obtained by me on a 

 small island off Cape Boheman, in Ice 

 Fjord, on June 26th ; the three eggs 

 being then slightly incubated. This was 

 the only pair of Geese upon the island. 

 I shot the female as she flew off the nest, 

 and the male for some time displayed 

 great solicitude, swimming round and 

 round and calling incessantly, but never 

 came within shot. . . . On July 24th two 

 broods of young were running with their 

 parents near the Splendid Glacier. Both 

 these broods were in an advanced state 

 of grey not yellow down. ... I have 

 elsewhere described the way in which a 

 Bean-Goose will run along and then 

 squat with its neck stretched straight out 

 along the ground, exactly in the attitude 

 assumed by the Thick-knee or Norfolk 



