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about four miles from St. Germain's, near which it re- 

 mained for two or three days. Being several times dis- 

 turbed by attempts to shoot it, it came more inland, to a 

 low-situated farm, called Pool, and there associated with 

 the Common Geese ; but was wild, and immediately took 

 wing upon being approached. Here it kept to and fro for 

 a day or two, but being much disturbed, left, and came 

 down upon the shore of the St. Germain's River, or estuary, 

 when the following day, the 20th of June, 1821, it was 

 shot by John Brickford in a wheat-field at Sconner, about 

 a mile from St. Germain's. When killed, it was in the 

 most perfect state, having only one shot in the head. 

 Some gentlemen who saw it the following day, requested 

 him to let me have it, which he promised ; but though he 

 knew I was a bird-stufFer, he had a wife, who, from 

 some strange infatuation, thought she could stuff it ; but 

 being soon convinced of her inability, she cut off the wings 

 for dusters, and threw the skin away ; and it was not till 

 three weeks afterwards that I heard of the circumstance, 

 when I sent a servant, who brought it covered with mud, 

 the head torn off, but luckily preserved, as also one wing, 

 when I had it washed, and put it together as well as I 

 was able. The skin, in this state, was obligingly forward- 

 ed to Newcastle by Mr. Mewburn, for Mr. Bewick's use, 

 from whence it passed into Mr. R. Wingate's hands, who 

 has most ably reset it, and thus preserved one of the most 

 uncommon ornithological rarities ever known in England." 



A specimen of this rare goose has been killed near Bannf, 

 and is now in the possession of a resident, as I have learned 

 from Henry Smurthwaite, Esq., of the Bank, Richmond, 

 Yorkshire. 



Mr. Bewick's description of the specimen at Newcastle 

 is as follows : " The bill is reddish-yellow, with a jointed 

 protuberance on the base of the upper mandible. The 



