220 BIEDS OF MIDDLESEX. 



Northern Asia and Siberia. Col. Montagu, in his 

 ' Ornithological Dictionary,' states, on the authority 

 of Dr. Latham, that a bird of this species was shot 

 near London in the severe frost of 1766. This 

 bird passed into the collection of Mr. Tunstall, and 

 is now preserved in the museum at Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne, where I saw it in May, 1863. From this 

 specimen Bewick executed the beautiful engraving 

 in his ' British Birds.' 



CANADA GOOSE, Anser canadensis. Many winters 

 ago five of these birds appeared on the Reservoir at 

 Kingsbury. Mr. Bond observed them on the water 

 while taking a stroll with his gun, and with some 

 difficulty managed to stalk them. He got a single 

 shot, killing one dead, and wounding another so 

 severely that it was barely able to get away and top 

 the wall at the head of the reservoir. Notwith- 

 standing a long search he failed to find it that day, 

 but the following week he learnt, from the landlord 

 of the ' Spotted Dog' at Willesden, that a Goose 

 exactly answering his description had been killed 

 some days previously by a boy who found it lying, 

 disabled, in a ditch, and had furnished him with an 

 excellent dinner. Mr. Bond was of opinion at the 

 time, from an examination of the bird first killed, 

 that it was not an escaped specimen, but a veritable 

 wild goose. The weather at the time was very 

 severe. 



MUTE SWAN, Cygnus olor. So much has been 



