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occurred at different times in the neighbourhood; it may be classed as a 

 tolerably abundant species there ( Hele, ^4M. 142); a fine specimen killed on 

 the Lantern Marshes at Orford, Feb. 1877 (Rope MS.). 



West Suffolk. 



7. Flocks of geese occur more or less irregularly every winter on the 

 open parts of the district, they appear to be mainly of this species (A. 

 Newton in litt.). 



Months. — January, February, December. 

 Districts. — 1, 2. 7. 



This was not distinguished in England from the other 

 geese until 1839, when Mr. Bartlett brought it before the 

 notice of the Zoological Society. He was not then aware 

 that M. Baillon had described it in France in 1833. Its 

 pink feet and beak in part pink with black nail mark the bird 

 when alive. It is rather smaller than the Bean Goose, 

 and its beak is much shorter. This goose may have 

 occurred in the county much more frequently than the above 

 records might seem to imply ; it seems to be not uncommon 

 in Norfolk (see J. H. Gurney, jun. in Mason's Norf. iv.). 



White-Fkonted Goose, Anser albifrons (Gmelin). 



S. and W. Cat. 54. — Spald. List, xxxviii. Catalogued 

 only. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Two shot at Yarmouth by E. T. Booth, Esq., Nov. 1881, (G» 

 Smith in litt.). Occasionally shot on Breydon (Paget, Y. 10); a some- 

 what small female, well barred below, shot there Jan. 5, and another 

 bird of this species in Feb., 1880 (H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd S. vi., 

 366-7). An immature bird (without a single bar across the breast) 

 obtained at Belton, Feb. 11, 1882 (G.Smith in litt.). One killed at 

 Oulton Broad Feb., 1871, by Mr. Bull (Thirtle in litt). Mr. Everitt 

 mentions that this bird occurred in numbers in Dec, 1875 ; probably 

 in the neighbourhood of North Cove (Creed in litt). 



2. One, in Spalding's sale, from Benacre or Easton Broad (Lot 358). 

 One shot at Southwold about 1879 by Hurr (in Mr. Combe's 

 Collection ; C. B. !) One obtained by Mr. Hele, shot at Thorpe in Jan., 

 1869 ; he was informed that several others were obtained during the 

 unusually cold winters of 1859, 60 and 61 (Hele, Aid., 143). Aldeburgh, 

 1829 (Acton in Loudon's Mag. N. H. iv. (1831), 163). A pair shot on 

 the Aide, at Orford, March, 1883 (T. Carthew in litt.). 



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