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which these birds are tamed. There is evidence of their breeding in captivity, and although 

 they have not reared young in the London Zoological Gardens (according to Dr. Sclater), 

 they have more than once successfully nested in several other gardens of Western Europe. 

 Dr. Sclater 1 states that a female of this species, acquired in 1853, paired with a Br ant a 

 bemicla, but there was no offspring from the union. 



From the above it will be seen that we are fairly well acquainted with the winter 

 haunts of these geese, and their habits in captivity, as well as with the main routes of their 

 migration, but we have as yet no information about their summer life on the little accessible 

 tundra of the north. 



The reader may see these geese at rest and on the wing, in company with white-fronts, 

 in Dr. Sushkin's frontispiece to this book. 



1 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880, p. 502. 



