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which are hatclied altoul the 10th or 15th July, aud both parents 

 assist in taking care of the young. I possess a single egg of this 

 goose, obtained on the Swedish expedition to Spitzbergeu, which is 

 pure white, resembles the egg of Ansey iDiser, but is rather smaller, 

 and the grain of the shell is somewhat smoother." 



Morris, ' Nests and Eggs of British Birds,' says : — 



" These birds unite about the middle of May ; Mr. G. Macgillivray 

 has remarked that he saw them in pairs about the middle of the 

 month, and that they had the young fully fledged and strong upon 

 the wing about the end of July. They had again collected into 

 flocks by the beginning of August. The eggs are of a pure white 

 colour. Eight were laid by one of these geese kept in the water in 

 St. James' Park by the Ornithological Society of London." 



I have received several chitches of this fine goose's eggs from Ice- 

 land, two of five each, and two of four each, and from Spitzbergen I 

 have received a single egg. Thev are in no way different from the 

 eggs of the grey lag goose, but average considerably smaller, the nine- 

 teen being, on an average, only 30 by I'OS inches, and the largest 

 only 3'15 bv '2-Ofi. 



