THE BRENT GOOSE. 
THE BRANt.—Anas Bernicha. 
Tats beautiful and delicious wild-fowl, like several of 
its congenors which breed within the limits of the Arctic 
Circle, is common to both continents of Europe and 
America, and is with us in the northern Atlantic states 
perhaps the most numerous, and certainly the most 
esteemed, whether as an object of sport or an article of 
food, of the varieties of this family, which are common 
upon our coasts. To the Canada Goose, or Wild-Goose, 
as it is more usually termed, Anas Canadensis, it is uni- 
versally, and not undeservedly, preferred ; although, in 
my opinion, the former is itself entitled to a. far higher 
place than is generally assigned to it among the water- 
fowl of America. The Snow-Goose, Anas Hyperboreus, 
and the White-Fronted Goose, Anas Albifrons, are so 
rare that opportunities seldom occur of testing their com- 
parative excellence. In England I once tasted the latter 
fowl, and found it scarcely distinguishable from the Grey 
‘Lag, or common Wild-Goose of Europe, Anas Anser, 
