462 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
making a narrow white band on the open wing; the 
primary quills are dark dusky, nearly black, with 
white shafts; secondary quills black; the upper part 
of the breast pale greyish brown; the rest of the 
breast and the belly a paler shade of the same, but 
barred and spotted with black; under tail-coverts 
white; the tail-feathers the same as the back and 
slightly tipped with white; legs, toes and webs 
orange, claws whitish horn-colour. 
Yarrell describes the eggs of the pair that laid in 
the Zoological Gardens as white, tinged with buff. 
BerRnicLE Goose, Anser leucopsis. I include this 
bird in my list on the authority of Montagu, who 
says that in the month of February, 1809, he had a 
specimen sent him by Mr. Anstice, of Bridgwater, 
which had been shot and wounded about a week pre- 
viously: he adds that, on being liberated from its 
basket, it immediately became reconciled to confine- 
ment, and lived and fed with his other aquatic birds. 
That this bird will become very tame and live to a 
ereat age in confinement I have been able to prove, 
as one died—or rather was killed, I believe by a fox 
—which had been given to my father, and which, 
at the time of its death had lived in the pond here 
for quite twenty years: it was said to have been 
a very old bird when my father received it. 
As I mentioned before, this bird has been known 
to pair and breed with the Whitefronted Goose. 
The one in this pond attempted every year to pair 
