458 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
Bran Goose, Anser Segetum. It is only lately 
that I have been able to add this species for certain 
to the Somersetshire lst, although I thought that, 
like the Greylag Goose, it must have occurred, 
though no notice had been taken of it. Happening, 
however, to be at one of the poulterer’s shops at 
‘Taunton about the middle of December (1868) when 
a basket of birds from the marsh was brought in, 
I helped to unpack it, and found two of the present 
species of Goose, two Whitefronted Geese, about 
twenty Wigeon, four or five Goldeneyes (females or 
young birds), two Curlews, and a lot of tame Ducks 
at the bottom. The two Bean Geese, I was sorry 
to find, were too much mauled about for me to have 
any chance of stuffing them, although I wanted them 
very much for my collection: JI managed, however, 
to identify them by the bill and legs. The marsh 
was at that time much flooded, looking, from the 
Quantock Hulls, more hke a sea than valuable 
pasture-land, and it had been in this state all the 
winter, consequently Wigeon and some few other 
wild-fowl were more numerous than usual in our 
market; but, with the exception of the four Geese 
just mentioned, I have not seen anything that could 
be considered rare or noteworthy. 
The Bean Goose is the most numerous of all our 
Grey Geese, and remains to breed in some parts of 
England, but more frequently in Scotland, where it 
is said to make its nest amongst the high heath and 
