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frequented by them, but they are found occasionally 

 in the south-eastern and other parts of Europe, from 

 whence they have been brought into this and 

 other countries, where they have been domesti- 

 cated, and thrive remarkably well. Half reclaimed 

 species are not unfrequently shot in England. 

 This bird appears to have been held in great 

 veneration by the ancient Egyptians, as we fre- 

 quently find a figure of it among the monuments 

 of that celebrated people. The Egyptian Goose 

 breeds freely in confinement. 



GOOSE, GREY LAG. 



AFSER (FERTJS), Lin. 



The Grey Lag Goose, the original of the tame 

 breed, and which is found all over the world, mi- 

 grates southward from the northern hemisphere in 

 autumn and winter, and returns in the spring. They 

 were formerly known to remain and breed in the 

 fens of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and various 

 other parts of Great Britain ; but the increase of 

 population and the cultivation of marshy places 

 have almost entirely driven away these feathered 

 inhabitants from their former haunts. In lieu, 

 however, of the wild species vast multitudes of the 

 domesticated ones are now kept in the same dis- 



