140 LITTLE WHTTE-FRONTED GOOSE. 



The beak is, however, shorter than in either of, 

 these. Nay, the beak of the Grey Lag is twice 

 as large and long. The forehead is white, from 

 whence also a white band descends, reaching to 

 the bend of the upper mandible on both sides. Head 

 and neck fuscous, with a blacker vertex. The temples 

 are black; but the cheeks and inner part of the throat 

 are sometimes of a paler colour. The beak is yellow, 

 and the feet are red. There can scarcely be a doubt 

 that this A. jinmarcliicus mihi, which has just been 

 described, is the Anas erythropus 'cinerea fronte-alha^ 

 Fauna Suecica, 116, and ^was helsingegaas of Clausius, 

 in Exot., 368. 



"In 'Ornith. Briinnichii,' p. 13, No. 54, there is a 

 variety of Wild Goose from Cimbria, with a forehead 

 all white, and the abdomen spotted with black, which 

 variety is the Trappe-gaas, or Laughing Goose of 

 authors. Our A. Jinmarcliicus or A. erythropus might 

 easily be confounded with the variety of Brunnich did 

 the size permit." — From pages 264-65 of "Canuti 

 Leemii Professoris Linguae Lapponica, de Lapponibus 

 Linmarchise," etc., commentatio, etc.: una cum J. E. 

 Gunneri, Episcopi Diocees, Nidors, (Throndjem,) and 

 S.S. Theologiae Doctoris Notis, etc. Copenhagen, 1767, 

 4to. 



As therefore neither Anser leucopsis nor A. alhifrons 

 occur in Lapland, nor in the district mentioned by 

 Linnaeus, the fact seems fully established that A. ery- 

 thropus is the subject of the present notice, as made 

 out by Mr. Newton. In a private letter to me M. 

 De Selys-Longchamps expresses the same opinion. 



The Little White-fronted Goose inhabits Lapland, 

 Sweden, Norway, and Finland, and has been captured 

 in Hungary, Germany, Holland, and Belgium, according 



