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much as two to three feet in height, so that falling 

 exactly between two of them it could not be seen, 

 unless you walked over the exact spot. I had been 

 right all the time in regard to where the Goose 

 fell, and John quite out of it — the only time I ever 

 knew him to make a mistake. This was a great 

 feather in my cap, and you may be sure John got 

 pretty well chaffed about it. 



Howard Saunders says in regard to this bird's 

 habitat abroad : *Tt breeds in considerable numbers 

 in Scandinavia to the north of latitude 64 deg., 

 and also in North Russia. Messrs. Seebohm and 

 Harvie Brown found it nesting on the 'tundras' 

 of the Petchora ; and at Dvoinik on July 27th 

 several hundred old Geese and about as many 

 young were observed marching like a regiment of 

 soldiers, most of them being in full moult and 

 unable to fly. Eastward we trace it in summer 

 across Arctic Siberia ; while large flocks visit China 

 and Japan in winter." 



Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, the great authority on 

 Wild-Fowl, says : " That Bean Geese are very 

 restless in their habit, being much influenced by 

 the changes of temperature — that during frosts they 

 go to tidal waters. Continued rain and wind keep 

 them inland ; a north wind unsettles them ; a north- 

 east wind again will bring them to the coast in antici- 

 pation of frost ; a change and they are on their 

 travels once more." 



I cannot conclude what I have written about 

 these three different species of Wild-Geese with- 



