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GreEyY-LAG GoosE.—The grey-lag goose, considered to have 
bred up to the close of the last century, is now only 
an occasional winter visitant, though I think it has 
been more plentiful the last year or two. 
BEAN GoosE.— The bean goose is probably rarer than the 
pink-footed, but in some seasons the one species in 
common, and the other absolutely unrepresented.1 
PINK-FOOTED GOOSE.—Mr. Stevenson considers the pink- 
footed goose commonest on the western side of the 
county. I do not recollect to have seen any killed at 
Blakeney, but I have one from Ludham. 
WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE.—A winter visitant, not very com- 
mon, but sometimes to be seen in Norwich Market. 
BRENT Goose.—A winter visitant, sometimes common, 
sometimes rare. After the protracted frost of 1870, a 
great many were shot at Blakeney and other harbours. 
BERNICLE GoosE.—A winter visitant, but much rarer here 
than on the west coast of Great Britain. One in my 
collection was shot at Rockland, which I owe to the 
kindness of Mr. Stevenson. 
RED-BREASTED GoosE.—As this is not an unlikely bird to | 
occur, I think we may believe in an example stated to 
have been bought in Yarmouth Market in 1805, killed 
at Halvergate, close to Breydon ‘‘ Broad,” which has 
been a fatal attraction to so many a rare bird. 
EcypTiAN GoosE—Has repeatedly occurred, but this 
handsome goose is so often kept in confinement, that 
suspicion attaches to most of them.? 
1Mr. E. T. Booth, who has had great experience on the east side of 
Norfolk, writes in the ‘‘ Field’? that he has always found the Bean 
Goose to be the most abundant (‘‘ Field,’’ March 3rd, 1883). 
? It is rather suggestive that in a country so much nearer to Egypt as 
Italy, where they are probably not often kept in confinement, and the 
avifauna of which has been well worked out, only one doubtful instance 
is on record. Comp. ‘‘ The Ibis,’’ 1881, p. 185. From what I saw of 
its habits in Egypt, it appeared to be a very sedentary species. 
