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northern portion of Central Finland, and rather lower in the eastern districts. Malm says that 

 it nests not uncommonly in Enare and Utsjoki, and it is also found in Muonioniska and 

 Enontekis parishes, sparingly in Pudasjarvi, in Kajana; and, according to J. von Wright, it 

 certainly breeds in Iisalmi, Northern Savolax, and possibly further south in Karelen. Elsewhere 

 in Finland it is found only on passage. 



In Russia this Goose ranges up to the coasts of the White Sea, and possibly occurs on 

 Novaya Zemlya. Messrs. Seebohm and Harvie-Brown write (Ibis, 1876, p. 441): — "The Bean- 

 Goose arrived at Ust Zylma on the 10th May. Small parties and sometimes large flocks con- 

 tinued to frequent the neighbourhood wherever there was any open water, until the ice and snow 

 had all disappeared, when the Geese disappeared also. At Kuya, on the 19th June, we got eggs 

 of the Bean-Goose considerably incubated. At Alexievka we not unfrequently found their nests 

 concealed in the long grass of some hillock or islet on the banks of the lakes on the tundra, and 

 we secured a number of eggs. We did not find any of their nests on the islands of the delta. 

 The Bean-Goose is an early breeder, and doubtless makes its nest on the tundra before the great 

 march-past of ice on the river is over, and whilst most of the islands are still under water. 

 Soon after the young are hatched, before they are able to fly, these birds congregate in large 

 flocks, and march slowly into the tundra to moult. The Samoyedes gave us glowing accounts 

 of the grand battues which they used to have at these times, killing the Geese with sticks, and 

 collecting large sacks full of down and feathers. Seebohm was fortunate enough to come across 

 one of these migratory flocks of Geese. It was on the 27th July, whilst we were living in a 

 wrecked ship on the shores of the lagoon at Dvoinik. He had crossed over to the North Twin 

 Cape, and was skirting the margin of the river which winds inland between high banks of grass, 

 when he heard a loud cackle of Geese. A bend in the river gave him an opportunity of stalking 

 them. As soon as he caught sight of them a most interesting and extraordinary scene presented 

 itself. Several hundred old Geese and about as many young were marching like a regiment of 

 soldiers. The vanguard, all old birds, were half across the stream ; whilst the Goslings brought 

 up the rear, and were running down the steep slope towards the water as fast as their legs could 

 carry them. Both ba*nks of the river were strewed with feathers, where they had no doubt been 

 feeding ; and a handful of quill feathers was picked up in five minutes. They were evidently 

 migrating to the interior of the tundra, moulting as they went along. The following day we 

 discovered that our stock of provisions was entirely exhausted, and we sent a party after this 

 flock of Geese. They met with them a few versts higher up the river, and succeeded in securing 

 eleven old birds and five goslings. Most of the Geese were in full moult, and unable to fly ; and 

 Piottuch told us that both old and young made for the water, and attempted to conceal themselves 

 by diving." 



Throughout Central Russia it is said to be tolerably common on passage, though less 

 numerous than several of its allies. Artzibascheff observed it in the northern portion of the 

 Saratoff Government, though not elsewhere. In Poland, Mr. Taczanowski says, it is the 

 commonest species on passage in the autumn, from late in September until the first frosts, and 

 in the spring, from early in March to the middle of April. 



Throughout North Germany it is common on passage; and Von Homeyer remarks (J. f. O. 

 I860, p. 372) that in Pomerania, according to the farmers, the Bean-Geese arrive about the 



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