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however, cannot yet be defined with accuracy. Both this species 

 and the form A. arvensis are recorded by Sommerfelt and Nordvi 

 as breeding abundantly in East Finmark. Barth has observed it 

 breeding in West Finmark, at Karasjok, where he came across a 

 whole brood July 28th 1857, four of which, of the size of a teal, 

 were bagged. The young birds were splendid divers. 



On Store Tamsø, in the Porsangerfjord, there is a congenerous 

 species somewhat less in size than A. einer ms ; but whether it 

 is identical with this bird, or is possibly erythropus, is at present 

 unknown. 



Anser brachyrhynchus, Baillon. 

 At the present time it is not proved to a certainty that this 

 species breeds in Norway. The individuals observed by Nordvi 

 in East Finmark, in June 1867, 1 one of which was killed, are 

 supposed by Professor Malmgren, 2 and with good reason, to 

 have been retarded on their annual passage to Spitsbergen or No- 

 vaja Zemlia. None of these individuals were preserved. Exclusive 

 of the individual shot near Christiania in the autumn of 1865, 3 

 two individuals only have been examined of late years; both were 

 killed in the neighbourhood of Trondhjem, in 1871, on the autumn 

 passage. 



Young bird in autumn dress (Christiania September 20th 1865). 

 Bill measured from nostrils, 16 mm, culmen 38, distance from 

 upper mandible to frontal angle 20, middle toe with claw 60 -f 9, 

 wing 413, longest feather in tail 106 mm. r 



Head brownish grey; neck same colour, becoming gradually 

 paler towards the breast, and is not furrowed; nail of the bill 

 black. Dorsal plumes dark greyish brown with a tinge of blue, 

 and faintly edged with greyish. Belly light greyish brown without 

 the pale edges; each feather, however, being a trille darker in 

 the centre, a series of faint longitudinal spots appear upon the 



1 „Norges Fugle" (Forh. i Vid. Selsk. 1863, p. 175). 



2 Anteckn. om Finl. och Skand. halfons Anseridæ (Notiser ur Sallsk. pro F. & 

 Fl. Fenn. FGrh., X, 1869, p. 392, in the note appended). 



3 Forh. Vid. Selsk. 1871, p. 58. 



