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colour of the same parts in the Bean Goose. Oddly enough, 

 I could find no specimens of the " Long-billed Car Goose " in 

 Mr. Strickland's collection in the York Museum. 



With many apologies for being led into this digression, 

 I will now return to my journal. At the chief poulterer's at 

 Lille I saw more than a dozen Tufted Ducks, and a beauti- 

 ful Grey Phalarope. It is the custom to hang up skins, 

 and at this game-shop there was a Kentish Plover, and at 

 another a Merganser, a Scoter, and a Black-tailed Godwit. 



With regard to the Museum of this town I cannot do 

 better than quote my father, as his note is more full than 

 mine. 



" There are two collections of birds in the Museum here, one a 

 good general collection, the other a very fine series (in a separate 

 room) of the birds of Europe, which formerly belonged to the late 

 Dr. Degland, author of " Degland's Birds of Europe," who lived at 

 Lille. In the general collection there are a fine pair of adult 

 Goshawks from the Ural Mountains, which seemed to me to have 

 the transverse bars on the breast decidedly narrower and finer than 

 on the breast of adult Goshawks in Western Europe. 



" In the collection which was formerly Dr. Degland's, there is a 

 remarkably fine series of Honey Buzzards, chiefly from the 

 Pyrenees, some specimens of Greyheaded Wagtails killed near 

 Lille, and one similar Wagtail killed there with a head quite black, 

 and in fact the same as the black-headed yellow Wagtail of the 

 south of Europe, and also as Mr. Vingoe's Cornish specimen, 

 except that the latter has, I think, a little white mark near die eye. 

 There were also nearly pure albinoes of the common Yellow Wag- 

 tail and the Tree Pipit ; two specimens of the Turdus Atrigularis, 

 said to have been killed at Amsterdam ; a nestling Golden Oriole, 

 taken from the nest near Lille ; a nestling Ring Ouzel, very differ- 

 ent from the adult, and spotted almost like a young Blackbird ; a 

 Siberian Bunting ( Emhcriza chrysophrys, Pall. ), caught near Lille ; 

 a nestling Little Gull from the Ural Mountains ; and lastly, a Great 

 Auk, bought by Dr. Degland of a dealer at Amsterdam in 1835. 



