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dissected in March 1864, had an immensely developed 

 gizzard, and a very lengthened intestine; the gizzard 

 containing vegetable matter and fine sand. The 

 length of the intestine from pylorus to anus was nine 

 feet. (Zool. 1864, p. 9048.) 



202. ANSER BERNICLA (Linnaeus). Brent Goose. 

 Provincial. Little Black Goose. 



This, the most oceanic of all the Geese, occurs in 

 severe winters and long-continued frosts in immense 

 flocks off the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coasts ; also 

 within the estuary of the Humber. At low water I 

 have seen them feeding in considerable numbers on 

 the flats, where they are not unfrequently obtained 

 by our gunners. In the spring I have observed them 

 occasionally feeding in the fields of young wheat in 

 the Humber marshes. 



203. ANSER ^GYPTIACUS (Linnaeus). Egyptian 

 Goose. 



Mr. Boynton, of Ulrome Grange, has informed me 

 that in December 1862 a Goose of this species was 

 shot from the pier of Bridlington Quay by Edward 

 Young. This bird is now in the possession of T. 

 Ellotson, the Bridlington birdstuffer. On the 14th 

 of January, 1867, after a heavy gale, an adult female 

 Egyptian Goose, in an exhausted state and wounded, 

 was picked up in a straw yard near Beverley. It is 

 now in the collection of Mr. Stephenson, of Hull 



