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LITTLE WHITE-FBONTED GOOSE. 



PALMIPEDES. 



Family ANATIDJ^J. f Bojiajiarte. ) 



Genus Ansek. ( Brisson.) 



LITTLE WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 



Anser eryihropus. 



Anser eryihropus, 



finmarchicus, 



minutus, 



temminckii, 



cineraceus, 

 mediiis, 



Irevirostris, 

 alhifrons, 

 Anas eryihropus, 



" cinerea fronie-alha^ 

 Oie naine^ 

 Ziverggaus, 

 Fjcell-gas, 

 Finmarke-gaas,, 

 Dwarf Goose, 



A. Newton; Ibis, vol. ii, p. 406, i860. 

 Gunner; in Leemii de Lapponibus 



Finmarchiae, Coram. Notes, p. 264, 1767. 

 Naumann; Naturgesch. der Vogel 



Deutschlands, vol. ii, p. 365, pi. 290, 1842. 

 Boie; Isis, p. 882, 1822, (young,) et Auct., 



(adult.) 

 Brehm; Beitr, iii, p. 875. 

 Temminck; in Meyer's Taschenb., vol. iii, 



p. 251. 

 Hackel. 



Temminck; (young o? A. viinutus, Naumann.) 

 Linn^us ; Syst. Nat., ed. loth., 1758. 

 Faun. Suecica, No. 92, 1746. 

 Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 

 Of the Swedes. 

 Of the Finns. 

 Of English Writers. 



Specific Characiers. — Beak orange, and very small; primaries grey, tipped 

 with black, the shafts white; secondaries and tail quills blackish, the latter 

 bordered with white. Length twenty-two inches. 



We are indebted to Mr, Alfred Newton, in an able paper read 

 to the Zoological Society on the 29th. of June, 1860, and reprinted 

 in the "Ibis," of that year, for clearing up the confusion which 



