82 ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 
to our ornamental waters. The same author states that it 
frequents more hilly districts than the Gray-lag or Bean Goose. 
It breeds in the Arctic Ocean, being found abundantly in 
Lapland, Sweden, and Northern Russia, while it has also 
bred in the Zoological Gardens. It can be obtained at 
41 the pair. 
Male.—Head and front parts brownish-grey, marked with 
splashes of black and brown; back, brown of several shades ; 
tail and wings touched with white; bill, which is yellow, 
much serrated, having a broad band of white round the 
base of the upper mandible; breast pale brownish-white, 
with broad irregular black bars; legs and feet orange colour ; 
eye dark brown ; eyelid reddish-grey. 
Female.—Similar, with less white on the forehead. 
Young.—Upper parts dark, the head and neck of a 
lighter brown, the white band on the forehead very narrow, and 
tinged with orange. The dark bars on the breast not assumed 
the first year. 
Egg.—Whitish-buff; slender and long; five to ten 
in number. May. Incubation, a month to thirty-three days. 
LESSER WHITE-FRONTED OR LITTLE GOOSE. 
(Anser erythropus). 
This beautiful miniature goose, which is an inhabitant of 
Northern Russia, and weighs about four pounds, is a great 
addition to our list of fancy waterfowl, though rarely offered to 
amateurs. It has been shot in Northern Europe, as well as in 
Asia and India. Its breeding season occurs from April to June, 
five to six eggs being found in the nest, but we have very little 
information respecting its habits. Mr. Seebohm exhibited 
before the Zoological Society, a skin of this Goose shot in Sep- 
