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ANATID AS. 
NAT AT ORES. 
ANATIDJE. 
BARNACLE GOOSE. 
Anser leucopsis. 
PLATE CIX. FIG. II. 
We have scarcely any satisfactory information with re¬ 
gard to the summer habits of the different species of geese. 
Most of them resort to the uninhabited wilds of the coun¬ 
tries far north, during the breeding season, and it is only 
when in confinement that we have an opportunity of ob¬ 
taining their eggs. The Barnacle Geese in the collection 
of the Ornithological Society in the St. James's Park 
have produced eggs; and from one of these, in the collec¬ 
tion of Mr. Wilmot, the accompanying drawing is copied. 
An egg sent me from the collection of Mr. Newton, laid 
by a bird in the possession of Mr. Gurney at Easton, is of 
the same size. 
