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shelter for approach ; or they ride, as it were, just 
off the land, buoyant upon the wave, and occasion- 
ally pluck the sea-grass or weeds which are yet 
borne up within their reach. During the feeding- 
time, or when resting, as we have last mentioned, 
they aTe clamorous, and a flock is heard at a con- 
siderable distance from the regularity of the call of 
all the members, which is simultaneously kept up. 
They are also extremely wary, and we have never 
been able to approach them openly ; and according 
to the accounts of Hawker and other sportsmen, 
shots are best obtained, either at night, by lying in 
wait in the line of the flight, or by coasting in a 
punt on a day when the wind is favourable, when 
they may either be “ run into” or watched for in the 
range of flight. In Ireland this goose is also abun- 
dant, and furnishes most of the night shooting, 
which is much followed on various parts of the 
coast. Edinburgh market is largely supplied from 
thence. 
The geographic range of the Brent Goose is 
northward ; we have it in Shetland, and in Northern 
Europe, Iceland, Hudson’s Bay, * * * § Greenland, t and 
Nova Zembla. J In some of those northern lati- 
tudes it breeds, but we have no information of the 
situation or structure of the nest ; the eggs are de- 
scribed to be greyish white. § In North America 
* Richardson. + Scoresby. 
$ Von Bauer. See a Translation of his “ Animal Life” in 
that country, Annals of Nat. History. 
§ Yarrell. 
