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result was, more productive eggs. The young birds were 

 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), 

 with the Dublin Zoological Society in the Phrenix 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 

 1830. A small flock visited the Tweed in February 1832. 

 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 Hawker mentions " two killed in Norfolk, and 

 three at Longparish in Hampshire, in the winter of 1 823 ; 

 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, arid 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 



