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been killed by a gunner at Blakeney. This goose is 

 considered by Lord Leicester to be rare at Holkham, 

 except in hard weather, when it commonly appears in 

 flocks of from five to ten, and, being less shy, is easier 

 of approach than others. Mr. T. Southwell, in the 

 "Naturalist" for 1852, recorded several as killed in the 

 neighbourhood of Lynn towards the end of January; 

 and two more were shot at Hickling about the same 

 time; and in the same Journal for 1854 (p. 88), Mr. 

 Southwell described them as unusually plentiful at Lynn 

 in the previous winter. The few recorded in my own 

 note books, since that time, have been all killed during 

 sharp frosts, between December and February, which 

 agrees with Hunt's description of this species that " they 

 visit the fenny parts of this county in small flocks, in 

 severe winters." In West Norfolk, according to Mr. 

 Lubbock, a good many white-fronted geese are some- 

 times observed with the bean, or, as now distinguished, 

 more probably with the pink-footed. Blakeney and 

 Holkham have been already mentioned as localities 

 where it is occasionally remarked, and the brackish 

 waters of Salthouse would seem to have attractions, 

 as an adult bird in my own collection was killed there 

 on the 22nd of December, 1866, and Mr. Dowell had 

 one sent him from the same place so early as the 

 month of October, 1850. A single bird was killed at 

 Surlingham during a severe frost in January, 1864, 

 being over twenty miles from the coast; and a speci- 

 men in Mr. Upcher's collection, at Sherringham, was, 

 singularly enough, shot out of a fence by the sea, where 

 it was discovered by a Scotch terrier. The Messrs. 

 Paget describe them as " occasionally seen on Breydon ;" 

 and Hickling Broad appears to be a favourite resort in 

 sharp weather. 



It is remarkable that during the severe winter of 

 1870-1, this species, as Lord Leicester informs me, was 

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