SPUR-WINGED GOOSE. 



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NATATORES. 



THE SPUR-WINGED GOOSE, 



OR GAMBO GOOSE. 



Anser gambensis. 



Anas Gambensis, Spur-winged Goose, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 313. 

 Anser Gambo Goose, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 128. 



Spur-winged Goose, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 226. 



A SPECIMEN of this African Goose, killed in Cornwall in 

 June, 1821, was presented to Mr. Bewick by Mr. Henry 

 Mewburn of St. Germain's, near wliich place it was shot. 

 The figure in Bewick's work on our British Birds was 

 taken from this specimen, which is now deposited in the 

 Museum at Newcastle. 



G. T. Fox, Esq., in his Synopsis of the contents of the 

 Newcastle Museum, gives the following particulars of the 

 capture of this British-killed specimen, which were supplied 

 by Mr. Mewburn : " When first seen, it was in a field 

 adjoining the cliffs, at Port Wrinkle, a small fishing-place, 



