Pr A TOE, CH, 
White Fronted Goofe. Br. Zool. No. 268. pl. 94. I. (the head) 
Arét. Zool. No. 476. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. Vol. 6. p. 463. 2% 
L’Oye Sauvage du nord. Brif. Av. 6. 269. 3. 
 LOye rievfe. Buff: Orf. g. p. 81. 
Polnifche Ganfs. Kram. 339. 
Vild Gaas. Brunnich. 
The length of the White Fronted Goofe exceeds two feet; the 
weight is about five pounds. It has neither beauty of colours or 
elegance of form to render it an interefting fpecies. “Vhe white 
{pace on the forehead is the moft ftriking peculiarity of the bird, and 
its name is fufficiently charateriftic of that part, to diftinguifh it 
from every other Britifh fpecies of the Duck tribe. It is found in 
the fens in {mall flocks, during winter, and migrates in March. In 
England it is rather uncommon. 
Linnzus confidered the White Fronted Goofe as the female of the 
Bernacle Goofe, of which credulity has reported fo much, and we 
may think naturalifts have faid too little; for it feems yet, but doubt- 
ful with fome Ornithologifts whether the opinion of Linnzus be 
wholly unfounded in truth or not, though they have ventured to fe- 
parate them into diftinct fpecies. 
As many kinds of the Duck tribe inhabit the lakes and forefts of 
Lapland, and other arctic regions, during the breeding feafon, it is 
difficult in fome inftances, to diftinguifh the mere differences of fex 
or age from fpecific diftinctions. The bernacle of which the white 
fronted Goofe has been fuppofed the female, were believed about 
two hundred years to be bred on the coaft of Scotland; but thofe 
who 
