a04 ‘ANSER. FERUS. ” 
(pl. eviii. fig. 2, p. 882), where a Grey Lag’s egg sent by me [§ 5403] was made 
to serve for both ; the result being that Mr. Hewitson never figured a Bean- 
Goose’s egg at all. | 
§ 5393. One.—Loch Laighal, Sutherland, 19 May, 1847. 
From Mr. Henry Milner. 
[Given as a Bean-Goose’s,] Mr. Henry Milner had said in a letter 
“JT can get you one or two next year from Loch Laighal, where the 
Grey [Lag] Geese never breed.” He has, however, kindly brought 
me this specimen to-day [26 October, 1847]. Mr. Selby [vide 
supra], as quoted by Mr. Hewitson, mentions Loch Laighal 
as a breeding-place of this Goose. For further particulars see 
Mr. William Milner’s paper (‘ Zoologist,’ p. 2017). 
> 
§ 5394. Zwo.—Loch Langevat, Lewis, 31 May, 1847. From 
Mr. Henry Milner (one through Mr. Graham). 
I believe the bird was not known to breed in Great Britain * before 
the Messrs.. Milner found its nest in Lewis this year [Zoologist, 
1848, pp. 2055, 2061]. It is therefore a very interesting specimen, 
and Mr. Henry Milner has made another one equally so, for he has 
this morning [26 October, 1847] attached his signature to one I 
bought of his attendant, Mr. Graham, being well assured of the 
identity of the egg. , 
§ 5395. Zhree-—Loch Laighal, 15 May, 1848. From Mr. 
William Dunbar. 
Mr. Dunbar says the Grey Lag Geese are from Loch Laighal. 
“Mr. St. John was with me when we got the eggs and we shot the 
birds. The eggs are from three to eight in number.” 
[The shooting of the birds at this particular loch is not mentioned by 
Mr. St. John in his ‘ Tour in Sutherlandshire,’ though (i. p. 41) he speaks of 
the islands in it as “ the breeding-places of grey geese,” and of shooting Grey 
Lag Geese at Loch Meadie (p. 35). ] 
1 [An evident slip of the pen for “ North ” Britain, as Mr. Wolley must have 
been familiar with the numerous records of its haying formerly bred abundantly in 
the English fens.—Ep. | 
