WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 
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NATATORES. 
ANATIDuE . 
WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 
Anser albifrons. 
plate cix. pig. hi. 
Mr. Proctor has had the eggs of the White-fronted 
Goose from Iceland, where it breeds occasionally. 
Mr. Wolley (speaking of Lapland) says, “The White- 
fronted Goose is found in many places in the neighbour¬ 
hood of the mountains. It breeds in company, a good 
many pairs being found in the same flat moor or valley. 
“When the Laps are moving their herds, often of many 
hundred head of deer, if they happen to spread themselves 
over a valley occupied by the geese, the flight of the birds 
soon betrays the situation of each nest. In this way, when 
last spring I went to look for them, I found the ground 
thoroughly beaten over before me, and it was with some 
difficulty I obtained a single nest; there were six eggs 
in it.” From one of these eggs the figure in the plate is 
copied, and does not differ from one in the collection of 
Mr. Yarrell, which was laid by a bird in the garden of the 
Zoological Society, where they have succeeded in rearing 
their young ones. 
