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Flamingo, but in many instances they may be escaped 

 birds. The first record of one having been taken was 

 at Ehnley, in the Isle of Sheppey, on or about August 7, 

 1873, by Mr. A. J. Jackson. It was afterwards stated by 

 Mr. E. Newman that one of the Flamingoes had escaped 

 from the Zoological Society's Gardens two or three days 

 previous to its capture at Elmley. 



But the most important record of the Flamingo in 

 Kent is that of Captain G. E. Shelley, pubhshed in 

 Yarrell's British Birds, who "informed the editor that 

 on August 12, 1884, when waiting for the evening flight 

 of Curlew, near New Eomney, an adult Flamingo flew 

 past with outstretched neck and legs in a south-easterly 

 direction, its red wings and black primaries showing 

 clearly in the light of the setting sun ; and his two 

 nephews, who put the bird up, told him they got within 

 fifty yards of it while it was feeding by the sea amongst 

 a flock of Gulls." 



Family ANATID^. 



Genus CHENALOPEX, Stephens. 



EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 



Chenalopax cBgyptiacus (Linnaeus). S.N., i.,p. 197 



(1766). 

 Crocker Goose. 



In the Zoologist, 1846, Dr. F. Plomley records the 

 occurrence of " a flock of five Egyptian Geese which had 

 been ranging about Eomney Marsh for some few days, 

 but so wild that a specimen could not be obtained ; these 

 birds were formerly very common, and are well known to 



