158 BARNACLE GOOSE 
Mr. Crellin says (Y. L. I, iii. 23) that during the storm 
of 21st December 1894 Brent ‘appeared in great numbers, 
some being completely beaten by the wind and unable to 
fly. Some of these birds were caught by the hand, as also 
were Wild Ducks. Old people say the same thing happened 
during the storm of 1829.’ 
This species is plentiful in many of the Irish estuaries, 
and is the most abundant Goose on the coasts of Antrim 
and Down. In Galloway, on the contrary, it is less 
common than the true Barnacle Goose. In Cumberland it 
is described as irregular, but is of not infrequent occurrence 
in Lancashire. _ It appears locally, and seemingly not very 
commonly, in the outer groups of Scottish isles. It is a 
characteristic and very abundant winter visitant to the 
eastern coast of Britain. 
BERNICLA LEUCOPSIS (Bechstein). 
BARNACLE GOOSE. 
At the sale of the Wallace collection, lot 1211 contained, 
according to Mr. Macpherson, a Manx specimen of this 
species (Zool., 1899, p. 420). Mr. Macpherson states 
(in lt.): ‘Lot 1211 included “ Barnacle Goose, male and 
female”—so says the catalogue (p. 38). But one was a 
Brent Goose—a bird of the light-breasted form; the other 
was a true B. lewcopsis.’ 
Blundell (1656) locates at the Calf of Man ‘those sea 
fowles geese, which most will have to be generated of 
putrefied wood, which by them are called barnacles, but by 
the Scots claik geese and soland geese, but I suppose they 
may breed of a shellfish y* groweth on the rocks’ (History, 
p. 34). 
