WHITE FRONTED GOOSE. Crass IE 
These birds visit the fens and other parts of 
England during winter, in small flocks;* they 
keep always in marshy places, and never fre- 
quent the’corn lands. ‘They disappear in the 
earliest spring, and none are seen after the mid- 
dle of March. During summer, they inhabit 
Hudson's bay, the north of Europe, the extreme 
north of Asia, and in their migrations spread 
all over Stbiria. 
Linneus makes this goose the female of the 
Bernacle; but we think his opinion not well 
founded. Doctor Lester adds two other species 
to the list of Hnglish geese; one he calls the 
great Black Goose or Whilk ; the other the small 
Spanish Goose, which he says is of the same 
color with the common goose, but no larger 
than the Brent goose; each species has hitherto 
eluded our most diligent enquiry. il 
I must conclude this subject with observing, 
that the goose was one of the forbidden foods of 
the Britons in the time of Cesar. 
* The flocks were very numerous in the hard winter of 
1704-5. 
+ It may here be remarked that the Chinese goose (Arct. Zool. 
ii. 297.) which breeds with the common species, the Canada 
goose (ib. ii. 265.) and the Egyptian goose (Luth. Syn. vi. 453.) 
have been introduced, and are to a certain degree domesticated ir in 
Great Britain. Eb. 
