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Wash, near Lynn. These birds, which were in all 

 probability pink-footed geese, had so entangled them- 

 selves that the net had to be cut to get them out. 



From the localities then most commonly frequented by 

 this species in Norfolk, it is very natural that the majority 

 of specimens procured by the gunners should find tlleir 

 way into the hands of the game dealers at Lynn, by 

 whom, there being but little local demand for such birds, 

 the chief portion are sent up to the London markets. 

 From notes made at Lynn by Mr. Thomas Southwell, 

 between the years 1848 and 1854, 1 find that examples of 

 this goose were remarked by him hanging for sale every 

 winter, between November and February, the earliest 

 date being November 6th, 1854, and the latest February 

 18th, 1853. I have records also, between 1852 and 1869, of 

 some fourteen or fifteen, from various parts of the county, 

 that came under my own notice during that period. 

 These, with but one exception — observed in the Norwich 

 market on the 8th of March, 1862 — were all obtained 

 between November and February, and for the most part 

 in hard weather. 



Although so local in its habits, as a rule, this 

 species is much more dispersed during severe frosts. 

 In the neighbourhood of Cromer I have known two or 

 three killed between Runton and Beeston,^ and, scarce 

 as it is in the " Broad " district, I have one in my col- 

 lection shot at Ludham on the 6th of January, 1854. Mr. 

 F. Norgate possesses one which was picked up dead on 

 Wliitwell Common, nearly in the centre of the county, 

 and the following curious instance of nocturnal migra- 

 tion, which occurred on the extreme south-eastern border 

 of the county, was communicated to me by the Rev. H. T. 



* In the " Field" of February 4th, 1865, Mr. N. F. Hele records 

 a few pink- footed geese, and one bean goose, as shot in January of 

 that year, at Aldeburgh. 

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