SPUR-WINGED GOOSE 



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THE SPUR-WINGED GOOSE, 

 OR Gambo Goose. 



Anai Gambensis, Spur-winged Goose, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 313. 

 Anser, ,, Gambo Goose, Flem. Brit. An. p. 128. 



„ ,, Spur-winged Goose, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 226. 



A specimen of this African Goose, killed in Cornwall in 

 June 1821, was presented to Mr. Bewick by Mr. Henry 

 Mewburn of St. Germain's, near wliicli place it Avas shot. 

 The figure in Bewick's work on our British Birds was taken 

 from this specimen, Avhich is now deposited in the Museum 

 at Newcastle. 



G. T. Fox, Esq. in his Synopsis of the contents of the 

 Newcastle Museum, gives the following particulars of the 

 capture of this British killed specimen, which were supplied 



