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two killed in Norfolk, early in this century; and Mr. 

 Joseph Clarke also informs me that one was shot at 

 Yarmouth in 1833, and that the late Mr. Stephen Miller 

 once followed a ilock of several in Yarmouth roads. No 

 mention, however, of either species is made by Messrs. 

 Sheppard and Whitear (1825) or Messrs. Paget (1834). 

 My own notes, of course, contain more recent instances, 

 including undoubted stragglers from " home " waters, 

 killed on Breydon and some of the larger broads near 

 the coast, in May and June, as well as in mild weather 

 during the autumn months ; but these are noticeable 

 only as showing the straying habits of this species in a 

 semi-domesticated state. 



Though included by Yarrell in his " British Birds," 

 the Canada Goose (Anser canadensis) should un- 

 doubtedly be classed with the swan goose,* the black 

 swan,t the Muscovy, and Carolina ducks, and other 

 fancy fowl, of which stragglers have been killed from 

 time to time in this county, in localities far from their 

 domestic haunts. As an acclimatised species, it is much 

 more plentiful in this county than the Egyptian, and the 

 same remarks apply as to its roving habits. J On Lord 

 Suffield's estate, at Gunton, near Cromer, they are so 

 abundant that from a hundred to a hundred and fifty 

 may be counted at one time in the park or adjoining 



* In the " Zoologist" for 1850 (p. 2705) Mr. Newman recorded 

 an example of the swan goose, as taken in a l^orfolk decoy, and 

 exhibited for sale in Leadenhall Market. This species is kept in 

 a semi-domesticated condition on several estates in this county. 



f A fine black swan, apparently uninjured by shot, was picked 

 up dead on Holkham beach, in December, 186 i; and another was 

 killed on Breydon in 1863. 



J Major King, in his " Sjjortsman in Canada" (p. 196), remarks 

 of this species, " I have myself known an instance in which half a 

 dozen, led away by the passing over them of a flock of brent geese, 

 deserted a farm where they had been long domesticated." 

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