LAUGHING eoOSE* 
three or four lines : adding, that Linnsus de- 
scribes a Goose found in Helslngia, whichl 
seems to be the same : whence it follows, h{ 
admits, that if this species be not common td| 
boih continents, it passes, at least under cer- 
tain circumstances, from the one to the other,| 
The specific character of the Anas Albi- 
frons, or White-Fronted Goose, according to 
Llonsus, &c. is this : " it is brown ; below, 
white spotted with black ; ii's front, and rump, 
are white ; and it's bill, and legs, are flame 
coloured." 
We shall give our readers, in Edwards's own 
words, the entire description of tliat accurate 
and minute observer of nature. 
The Bill," says this celebrated naturalist, 
^* is of a red colour all over ; made as in 
other Geese, and tootlied on it's edges both 
above and beneath. The tongue is also jag- 
ged on it^s sides. The feathers all round the 
base of the upper mandible of the bill are 
white : the rest of the head, and all the neck, 
are brown; the crown is darkest, and ap- 
