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flocks which pass over and stay a short time about Muonioniska 
appear to have left none of their wildness in their winter-quarters. 
It mostly spends the summer in marshes and moors towards the 
mountains, where men are very scarce. I have little doubt that this 
is also the Goose which breeds on islands of the Finmark coast. I 
send you an outline of the form of three of its eggs [§ 5450] now 
lying before me. They are three inches and a half long, by two and 
‘a quarter broad. They were taken last summer at a distance of 
several Swedish miles from Muonioniska. 
[The above was written to Mr. Hewitson, 2 February, 1855, but Mr. Wolley 
had soon after reason to change the opinion herein expressed as to the species 
of Goose which commonly bred on the islands of the coast of Finmark, though 
I believe it was that entertained by the majority of Scandinavian ornithologists 
at the time. No evidence of the Bean-Goose’s breeding in those islands, or 
indeed in any on the coast of Norway, could be obtained, and all the Geese 
observed, some of them sufficiently close to admit of their determination, 
seemed to be Grey Lags. | 
§ 5446. One—Myvatn, North Iceland. From Mr. Proctor, 
through Mr. Hewitson, 1346. 
§ 5447. One.—St. James’s Park. From Mr. Bartlett, 1847. 
§ 5448. Zwo.—St. James’s Park, 1852. 
These from Smith, the keeper of the Ornithological Society’s 
Waterfowl, and blown with my assistance 12 June, 1852. They 
were very putrid. He says that two Bean-Geese have laid eggs this 
year; one, paired with a Pink-footed Gander, had large young in the 
eggs when they were left. These were of course unblowable by him, 
and he says the eggs given to me are laid by uncrossed birds, breeding 
together. He has had long experience, and is perhaps not very 
likely to be deceived. 
§ 5449. Zwo.—St. James’s Park. From Dr. Frere, 1853. 
These from the Ornithological Society’s birds ; not, I think, last 
year’s, but probably in 1851, 
