GREY LAG GOOSE. 5 



the nortL. of Scotland, it may possibly remain tliere 

 throughout the year, as it is said to have done in the 

 Lincolnshire fens. 



Of late years the following are the only examples of 

 the grey lag goose of which I have any record as 

 occurring in Norfolk : — 



1847. November, A male in Mr. Rising's collec- 

 tion, killed at Horsey, near Yarmouth, is recorded by 

 Messrs. Gurney and Fisher in the " Zoologist " (p. 1966) 

 as the first Norfolk specimen "which had come under 

 their notice in a recent state ; and the same bird is 

 subsequently described (p. 2017) as having "black mark- 

 ings about the belly and between the legs,'^ much 

 resembling those found on the breast of the white 

 fronted goose, but somewhat less decided." 



1849. April. A male in Mr. Gurney's collection 

 was recorded by that gentleman in the " Zoologist " 

 (p. 2456) as killed on Breydon towards the end of the 

 month, and as exhibiting the white front to a greater 

 extent than the last, but without the black bars, adding, 

 however, that he had "never seen a specimen of the 

 grey lag goose exhibiting either of these character- 

 istics to so great an extent, or so definitely marked as 

 is the case in the adult white-fronted goose." 



1854. On the 16th of October I examined a stuffed 

 specimen in the shop of Mr. Knight, a birdstuffer in this 

 city, which had been sent up in the flesh from Yarmouth 

 a few weeks before, but the sex was not noted at the 

 time. In this bird the white front was slightly visible. 



* A female grey lag goose from India, which Mr. Gurney 

 kept in confinement for at least fifteen years, exhibited no appear- 

 ance of the white front, but on the lower part of the breast and 

 between the legs was barred with dark stripes. A grey lag goose, 

 which was killed in Sutherlandshire, in May, by Captain H. J. 

 Elwes, exhibited similar black markings on the under parts. 



