76 WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 
saw was raised from a rushy upland sheep-pasture, 
where, after a few turns, it again alighted, and 
we procured the specimen which will serve for the 
following description. We do not know its range 
further north in Scotland, but it does not seem to 
reach the extreme northern coasts, nor to be met 
with in the islands. In Ireland it is frequent. On 
the continent the White-fronted Goose extends 
south to Italy, * but it becomes more frequent in its 
range northward, and is abundant in Sweden ; in 
Lapland also it is common, breeding in both coun- 
tries. Out of Europe, Japan is given to it by Tem- 
minck, and the specimens from Northern and Arctic 
America have been considered identical by all our 
authorities upon the ornithology of that continent. 
Dr. Richardson states that its breeding-places aro 
the woody districts skirting the Mackenzie, to the 
north of the sixty-seventh parallel, and also the 
islands in the Arctic Sea, to which it regularly 
passes through the two countries in large flocks, t 
Audubon met with them in Kentucky, and high on 
the Arlcanzas river ; their flocks seldom exceeded 
above thirty or forty, and he considered them as 
by far the least shy of the species which are in- 
digenous to or that visit that country. They are 
considered there as “ delicious eating." 
Head and neck yellowish clove-brown, or dark 
wood-brown, the under eyelid paler, and the fore- 
head or base of the bill yellowish white, separated 
from the colour of the head by a darker line, which 
* M. Savi. ■}• Northern Zoology, p. 466. 
