96 THE BIRDS OF DEVONSHIRE. 



BEAN QOOi^K— Anser segetum (Gmel). 

 A WINTER visitant, numerous in some seasons of 

 protracted frost, at other times scarce or absent from 

 our estuaries. Specimens have been killed in recent 

 years at Slapton Ley, from which locality Montagu 

 received a couple of live Bean Geese through Mr. 

 Holdsworth. 



WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE.— .4«sfr allnjyons (Scop;. 



A WINTER visitant, and the Grey Goose generally 

 met with in Devonshire in ordinary seasons. 

 Several were shot near Exeter in 1846 (Zool. 1849. 

 p. 2384). A bird in the Exeter Museum was shot 

 on the Exe in 1850. Mr. Rawson examined three 

 fine birds, shot of a party of live on Northam 

 Burrows. The finest in plumage, that Gatcombe 

 ever saw, was killed on a down near Colstock in 

 1877. The bands on the breast and belly were so 

 broad and close together, as to make the underparts 

 appear almost wholly black. This bird had been 

 feeding on Dutch clover, of which its stomach was 

 full. It sometimes visits Dartmoor, for Mr. Clark 

 shot a White-fronted Goose in Fox-Tor mire in 

 February 1885 ; two others were seen at the same 

 time. Several White-fronted Geese were seen near 

 Barnstaple in January, 1888, and one was shot on 

 the Exe estuary in November of the same year. 



BRENT GOO^^.—Bernida hrenta (Pall). 

 A WINTER visitant, sometimes numerous on the Exe 

 and other estuaries in hard weather. The Rev. 



