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preserved, and kept by themselves experimentally. In 

 the following season many eggs were produced between these 

 hybrid brothers and sisters, the females sat steadily, but the 

 eggs were not productive, and those examined exhibited no 

 appearance of embryotic formation. An Egyptian Goose 

 has bred with the Knobbed or Swan Gander (A. cyg- 

 noides), and with the Spur-winged Gander (A. gambensis), 

 at 'the Dublin Zoological Society in the Phoenix Park. 



Besides various instances of single specimens of the 

 Egyptian Goose having been obtained in this country, 

 a flock of five were seen on the Fern islands in April, 

 1 830. A small flock visited the Tweed in February, 1 832. 

 Three were shot at Campsie, near Glasgow, in November, 

 1832. Mr. Wallace, of Douglas, sent me word that a 

 flock of nine were seen in the Isle of Man, in September, 

 1838. This species has been killed in Ireland. Four were 

 shot on the Severn, near Bridgewater, in February, 1840; 

 two were shot in Dorsetshire, in 1836 ; and Colonel Haw- 

 ker mentions " two killed in Norfolk, and three at Long- 

 parish in Hampshire, in the winter of 1823 ; and the next 

 year again, during some tremendous gales from the west, 

 a flock of about eighty appeared near the same place, 

 when two more were killed." 



The beak in the centre is pale brown; the nail, the 

 margins, and the base dark brown ; the irides wax yellow ; 

 round the eye a patch of chestnut brown; cheeks and 

 sides of the neck pale rufous white ; forehead, crown of 

 the head, back of the neck, the back, scapulars, and tertials, 

 rich reddish brown ; the carpal portion of the wing, the 

 smaller and the larger wing-coverts white ; the smaller 

 coverts tipped with black ; the wing-primaries almost 

 black, tinged with green ; the secondaries tinged with 

 reddish-bay, and edged with chestnut ; the lower part of 

 the back, the rump, and tail, nearly black ; front of the 



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