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this locality on which they have existed and bred for an un- 

 known number of years. He was further told by Mr. A. G. 

 More, of the Dublin Museum, that he had seen about a 

 hundred — herded, not paired — throughout the summer, on a 

 lake near the sea in co. Wicklow (' Fowler in Ireland,' p. 154). 

 The Grey Lag Goose has been proved to breed in Iceland ; 

 but it no longer does so in the Faroes, although it visits 

 them. It is still numerous on the west coast of Norway, 

 and the late Eichard Dann, who supplied the Author with 

 interesting notes referring to many of the species of this 

 extensive family of birds, more particularly as to their 

 breeding-ground and habits in Scandinavia, says: " On the 

 inlets and islands from Bergen northwards, these Geese 

 are not uncommon during the summer, particularly about 

 Hitteren, where they are tolerably numerous early in August, 

 and one of our party shot one there, which proved to be a very 

 large gander. Their migration so far north, however, seems to 

 be confined to the coast, for I never met with them in Lapland, 

 or in the northern parts of Sweden or Norway. They make 

 their appearance in the Elbe at the latter end of August or 

 the beginning of September, remaining there until October, 

 and then go further south." This species breeds in Denmark, 

 Sweden, Finland, Eussia, and some parts of North Germany ; 

 locally in Bohemia ; and occasionally in the marshes of the 

 south of Spain. Throughout the rest of Europe it occurs on 

 migration ; and in winter it is believed to visit the lakes of 

 North Africa in small numbers. According to Henke and 

 Bogdanow, it breeds in abundance in the deltas of the Volga 

 and the Terek, on the Caspian; and it probably nests in 

 other localities of a similar nature on the borders of Europe 

 and Asia. Its breeding-range does not appear to extend to 

 the northern portions of the latter, but only as far as 

 Turkestan, Kashgharia, Mongolia, and Amurland ; and in 

 winter the bird visits China as far south as Shanghai, and is 

 abundant in India down to the Central Provinces* ; some 



* Large Asiatic birds, with some white at the base of the bill, more black on 

 the under parts, and less grey on the wing-coverts and rump, have been separated 

 by the name A . r^ih-irostris, Hodgson. 



