126 PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 
1851; one, which had been previously wounded, was caught 
near Upware, on the bank of the Cam, in Cambridgeshire, in 
January, 1550. Three, one male and two females, at Ely, on 
the 3rd. of May, 1851; one near Wisbeach in the beginning 
of 1850. In Norfolk, one out of a flock of twenty, was shot 
by Lord Coke, in January, 1841. 
In Scotland these Geese breed in great numbers, among 
the Islands of Harris. 
The Pink-footed Goose resorts in spring to the northern 
districts of the three continents, whence it returns in the 
autumn. 
In their wild state they appear to travel in small flocks. 
Meyer writes, ‘Towards the spring these Geese become restless, 
flying to meadows, waste lands, and heathy commons, and 
finally leave their winter quarters for more northern regions. 
Their migratory journeys are performed usually in the day, 
and the speed at which they sometimes fiy has been noticed 
to amount to forty or fifty miles an hour. The numbers that 
journey together vary from five to fifty or sixty; and when 
in large flocks they form a triangular figure, headed by the 
father of the foremost family’ 
These birds have been kept on the ornamental water in 
St. James’ Park, as also in the Zoological Gardens. 
They are shy and wary, awake to the slightest noise, roosting 
together in flocks to their greater security. They repair 
towards evening to the borders of rivers, lakes, and open 
sands that verge upon the ‘water-mark,’ and leave them in 
the day-time for cultivated districts. 
They feed on oats, peas, beans, barley, wheat, buckwheat, 
and any other kinds of grain, and in lack of these on the 
roots, buds, and shoots of flags, rushes, and other water-plants. 
The voice is a quick and harsh clack. 
These birds pair about the middle of May. Mr. J. Macgil- 
livray has remarked that he saw them ‘in pairs about the 
middle of the month, and 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 on the water in St. James’ Park by 
the Ornithological Society of London. 
Male; length, two feet four inches; bill, bluish black at 
the base, the remainder pink red, except the tooth, which 
is also bluish black, but paler towards its base: a narrow line 
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