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Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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> vv li v * V I1 1 ? * i«0 . BERNICLE GOOSE. Anser leucopsis, Bechst.LOie Bernache. It is only during the months of autumn and winter that the British Islands are visited by the BernicleGoose, the extreme cold of the northern latitudes, where it sojourned during the summer season, havingdriven it southward into climates where its food is still accessible. The portion of our island in which it ismost abundant is along the whole of the western coast from north to south. In Lancashire it appearsespecially abundant: the North and West of Ireland is also visited by it in large flocks. On the ContinentHolland, Germany, and France offer an extent of coast and inland meres and marshes highly acceptable tothe Bernicle, to which localities it resorts in great numbers. It is decidedly one of the handsomest and mostelegant of the Geese that sojourn in the British dominions, and when domesticated forms a graceful ornamentto our aviaries. When wild it is extremely shy and wary, so much so that

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