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must have been met with occasionally during the 

 intervening years. In the winter of 1863 one was 

 killed near Datchet, and taken to Mr. Ferryman, in 

 whose possession it still remains. Another was shot 

 in the neighbourhood of Colnbrook during the same 

 year, for a notice of which I am also indebted to 

 Mr. Ferryman. During the cold winter of 1865-66, 

 a male of this species was killed on the banks of the 

 Thames, near Windsor, by Mr. Thumwood of that 

 town, and was taken for preservation to Mr. Hasell, 

 at whose house I had an opportunity of examining 

 it. The plumage certainly exhibited no marks of 

 recent captivity. Early one cold morning in January, 

 1867, a man named Alfred Brown, of Eton, killed 

 two Egyptian Geese at one shot on Dorney Com- 

 mon ; he took them to Eton, where I subsequently 

 had an opportunity of examining them. 



SPUR-WINGED GOOSE (Anser gambensis). A 

 single specimen of this rare straggler from Africa 

 is recorded to have been obtained in this country, a 

 full account of which may be found in the third 

 volume of Yarrell's ' British Birds.' I have now 

 the pleasure of recording the capture of a second 

 example of this Goose, and have the additional satis- 

 faction of being able to include it among the birds 

 of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. 



Early one morning in the winter of 1858-59, as an 

 Eton waterman named John Haverly was walking 

 along the Thames near Boveney Weir, armed with 



