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either of these. Mr. Bartlett told me that he had one larger than 
any he had seen before, that he took out of the nest himself. I 
declined having it, as I thought a» White-fronted Goose might 
possibly have made a convenience of the nest of the Bernacle. 
§ 5472. One.—St. James’s Park, 9 June, 1848. From Mr. 
E. B. Fitton. 
Mr. Fitton said this was an addled egg, but not discoloured. 
§ 5473. Zwo.—St. James’s Park, 1852. 
These from Smith, the keeper of the Waterfowl there, 12 June, 
1852. They had been blown some days before. 
[§ 5474. One—Haston, Norfolk, 1852. From Mr. Gurney. 
There can be no question whatever about the genuineness of this egg, on 
which account I sent it to Mr. Hewitson to be figured by him; but he preferred 
one from Mr. Wilmot’s collection. ‘There was no other bird that could have 
produced the present one kept on the water. } 
[§ 5475. One-—Garden of the Royal Zoological Society of 
Dublin, 1862. From Mr. R. J. Montgomery. 
Mr. Montgomery assured me that this had been laid by a Bernacle-Goose in 
the Garden of which he was Superintendent. | 
BRANTA BERNICLA (Linneus). 
BRANT-GOOSE. 
§ 5476. Four.—Spitsbergen, 1853. 
These eggs, apparently of Brent Goose, were given to me on the 
8th of May, 1854, by Mr. Samuel Monk, of Raipas (Alten Copper- 
works), West Finmark. They had been given to him last year by 
Herr O. C. Fandrem, handelsmand [merchant] in Karasjock, up in 
the mountains. Some Englishman, enquiring for eggs, to whom 
Mr. Monk had shcwn them last year, rejected them as useless. It 
