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Goose. The former he found was the well-known 

 Bean Goose, and the latter, to his surprise, he found 

 what he termed the small race of the White-fronted 

 Goose, the Anser minutus of Naumann. This fact was 

 more surprising to him because he had been assured 

 by the Swedish naturalists that the Mountain Goose 

 was A. leucopsis, or the Barnicle, to which Pennant 

 and Latham had erroneously applied the name erythropus. 

 Mr. Newton, carrying on his researches, shews that 

 some of the Swedish naturalists were aware that the 

 Mountain Goose was not A. leucopsis, as Zetterstedt, 

 in his Travels in Lapland, (Resa genom Sweriges och 

 Norriges Lappmarker af Joh. Willi. Zetterstedt, 2 vols. 

 8vo, Lund., 1822,) as well as Gunner, in some 

 notes to Leem's work upon Lapland, points out, (as 

 indicated by Mr, Wolley in his catalogue of eggs pub- 

 lished in 1857,) that this Mountain Goose was a 

 distinct species, to which he gave the name of Anser 

 jinmarchicus. 



Mr. Newton has kindly sent me an extract from 

 Leem's work and Bishop Gunner's notes in Latin, of 

 which the following is a translation: — "In Eastern 

 Finmark it is said there is found a certain species of 

 Wild Goose, distinct from others both in colour, and 

 in being of a smaller size. They are characterized by 

 their dark brown back, white belly spotted with black, 

 and a white collar about the eyes. The flesh of this 

 kind is not of a disagreeable flavour, nor do their eggs 

 differ much in goodness from those which domestic 

 geese lay." Upon this Bishop Gunner makes the 

 following note: — "This lesser species is commonly 

 called Finmarke-Gaas — the Finmark Goose, and is 

 much less than the Anas anser, (Grey Lag,) but 

 about the size of the Eider Duck, fA. mollissima.J 



