BEKNICLE GOOSE. 
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peditions, are in the above-named work considered 
to be a distinct and new species, there described as 
A. Hutchinsii. Audubon never met with it either 
on the coast or in the interior, and introduces it to 
his biography on the authority of others, at the same 
time he states having seen mounted specimens in 
various parts. It undoubtedly does not occur fre- 
quently or in any thing like the abundance of 
the other European and American geese, and its 
breeding-places are still a desideratum to our orni- 
thological knowledge.* Japan and Northern Asia 
are given to it by Temminck. It may be re- 
marked, however, that “ Barnacle” is a name com- 
monly also applied to the Brent Goose ; in the 
Edinburgh markets, where the latter species is 
abundant during winter, it is known under no 
other name, and thus by the intermixture of its pro- 
vincial appellation, confusion of distribution may 
easily occur. 
In this goose the bill is very small, and with the 
feet and legs black ; the forehead in a line with 
the eyes, the chin, throat and cheeks are white ; 
between the bill and the eye there is a broad line of 
interrupted black, and the back of the head, neck, 
and breast are of a deep and glossy shade of tire 
same colour; on the back this appears to shade 
gradually in, from the apparent portion of the 
feathers boing of that colour, lightening as they ap- 
proach the middle, and having the edges at first very 
* “ I suspect the shores of the White Sea, to the eastward, 
are the great breeding-places of this bird.” Yarrel, iii. p. 74. 
