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Pink-footed Goose : A/tser brachyrhynchus. 



A winter visitor. 

 There is in the Saffron Walden iVluseum a specimen shot there in 1841 ; and 

 the bones of one killed at Brightlingsea, on Dec. 31st, 1874 (32a) are among Dr. 

 Bree's specimens, while Mr. Elvves of Colchester has the bird. My uncle, Mr. 

 Joseph Smith, has one, shot some years ago at Pattiswick Hall, near Braintree, by 

 his son, Mr. Joseph Smith jun., who saw another with it, which escaped. 



White-fronted Goose 



ing Goose." 



A not uncommon v/inter visitor 



Mr. Clarke 

 speaks of it (24) 

 as occasional!}' 

 met with round 

 Walden in hard 

 winters. i\Ie3'er 

 (^British Birds) 

 mentions one shot 

 on the Thames, 

 near London, in 

 Feb. 1846. On 

 Dec. 3rd, 1879, 

 three were seen 

 near Harwich, and 

 an old Gander 

 and a young bird 

 were shot (Kerr}' 

 — ^40. iv. 69). An 

 old male was shot 

 at Tollesbury ear- 

 ly in Jan., 1870 

 (29. Jan. 15). 



It is shot oc- 

 casionally on the 

 coast in both the 

 Paglesham and 

 Colchester dis- 

 tricts ( Layer ). 

 The sternum and 



Anser albifroiis. Locally, " Laugh- 



WHITE FRONftD OOOSt, l/lo. 



id 29. Feb. 25), 



furculum of a specimen shot at Brightlingsea in Jan., 1871 (32a 

 are in the Bree Collection. 



On Feb. 23rd, 1889, a specimen was observed and was afterwards fairly 

 decoyed by means of a dog, together with several Ducks and Wigeon, ex- 

 actly in the way Ducks are taken, in Mr. Robert Page's Marsh House Decoy at 

 Tillingham. It is still preserved at Marsh House, where, through Mr. Page's 

 kindness, I have seen it. The taking of any species of Goose in a Decoy is highly 

 remarkable, and probably quite unique, though Mr. Page has another specimen, 

 caught in an ordinary rat-trap in the same Decoy eight or nine years ago. Once 



