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colony, which have also presumably been of this species; he writes, 
for instance, on September 25th, 1900, that he saw a goose, which 
he took to be a wild goose, at any rate it was neither a Brent goose nor 
a Barnacle goose. September 24th, 1912, he saw large flocks of geese — 
both Brent geese and Wild geese, flying past the colony, mostly from 
west to east, and Мау 5th, 1913, he received from a Greenlander a 
Wild goose which he had shot from a big flock near the neighbouring 
houses. 
WHITE FRONTED GOOSE (Anser albifrons gambelli Hartl.). 
Blisgaas. Е. Gr.: Nerdlek. 
The appearance of this bird at Angmagsalik is casual, but not 
very rare, it having been met with in all about 20 times. Petersen gives 
the following instances of his having seen or received it:— 
A young bird, shot September 19th, 1896, at Tasiusak; May 20th 
1901, Petersen saw a flock in Tasiusak; May 24th same year he received 
a female from Cape Dan, and May 30th one from the same place; May 
20th, 1903, he received one which had been found dead on the edge 
of the beach at Tasiusak; May 29th, 1907, a native brought one from 
Cape Dan, shot the same morning; October 14th, 1908, another was 
shot, and September 22nd, 1913, he received a young bird from the 
district at Cape Dan; October Ist, 1923, he received from Cape Dan 
an old and a young bird, and June 4th, 1924, two from Sermilik. 
The method by which some of the White Fronted Geese were 
caught is very peculiar, and indicates a strange timidity in the bird. 
That which was brought in on May 30th, 1901, was caught by a dog. 
The goose was so frightened when it saw the dog running towards it 
that it quite forgot to use its wings. Of the one caught at Cape Dan 
on September 22nd, 1913, Petersen writes: a girl had caught it with 
her hands, it having fallen among some little girls who were playing 
ball; by screaming and throwing the ball into the air they had so scared 
the goose that it lost its flying powers. Two years before it is said that 
something of the same sort happened in the colony itself; some boys, 
by shouting and throwing their caps up at a goose, had made it throw 
itself to the ground. 
The skin of the one shot on September 19th, 1896, was sent home; 
it was that of a young bird without a trace of white on the forehead. 
On the chin was a white patch, commencing behind the under part of 
the bill, 30 mm. long, 8mm. broad, Wing 370 mm., Tail 105 mm., 
Tarsus 71 mm. The skin of the one shot on May 20th, 1903, was also 
sent home :— 
Wing 365 mm., Tail 105 mm., Tarsus 70 mm., Bill (Culmen) 45 mm. 
