WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE—BRENT GOOSE. 213 
Ward .... bagged three of the white-fronted laughing 
geese out of seven that dropped in off the quay, and I 
afterwards fired a barrel, a very long shot, and got one 
laughing goose." 
He procured another on January ist, 1831, and a single 
one on January 26th, ten years later. 
On February 3rd, 1841, he procured one brown goose, 
which he says, in a footnote, was like the laughing goose, 
but with no bars on the breast, which Leadbeater thinks 
is a variety of the laughing goose. 
Lord Malmesbury has a specimen in his collection at 
Heron Court, shot on the Moors River in February, 1827, 
which was then considered a very rare specimen. In 
the " Memoirs of an Ex-Minister," written by the great 
uncle of the present Earl, we read : "January 26th, 1838. 
I killed five white-fronted geese to-day, stalking them with 
a pony, which is the only way of getting near them." 
Specimens have also been procured — at Holybourne 
(Curtis); at Cliddesden ("Zoologist," 1870); and in the 
Isle of Wight. Dr. Cowper records it from near Sandown 
in the winter of 1892-3. 
Yarrell mentions the winter of 1829-30 as the date 
of the appearance of large flocks in Devon and Cornwall. 
GENtJS^Bernzcia. 
162. Ber7iicla brenta. Brent Goose. 
A common winter visitor to the coasts of the county 
and Isle of Wight. Sometimes occurring in great numbers, 
but rarely straying inland. 
