164 BIBDS. 



Order 5. ANSERES. 



Family ANATIDJE. 

 Chenalopex eegyptiaca (Gin.). Egyptian Goose. 



[Obs. A bird of this species was sent to Mr. Small, of Edinburgh, 

 for preservation. It was killed on the 19th of December 1863. 



Mr. Small writes us as follows regarding this bird : " I 

 looked over my books and found the Egyptian Goose belonged 

 to Mr. Heddle of Hoy. He bought it out of a poulterer's shop 

 here, who told him it was killed in Orkney. Mr. Heddle 

 knew birds very well" (in lit. September 13th, 1888). 



In answer to our inquiries, Mr. Moodie-Heddle tells us he 

 remembers his father getting the bird, but that he does not 

 think it was killed in Orkney. There were two or three killed 

 about the same time in different places, and it was suggested 

 they might have escaped from some private pond.] 



Anser cinereus, Meyer. Greylag Goose, 



From all accounts a very rare bird in Orkney. Mr. Reid writes 

 us that in the storm of the winter of 1837-8 he shot two 

 geese at Papdale, which he took to be of this species. 



Mr. James Barnett mentions that he saw a small flock of the 

 Greylag Goose in Sanday, in October 1878. 



Some years ago Mr. Irvine-Fortescue was told that a flock of 

 geese, supposed to be of this species, pitched near the hill of 

 Kirbister, Orphir; and when we were at Swanbister in 1888, 

 this gentleman showed us the skin of a bird of the year he had 

 shot near there. It was one of a pair which pitched in a field 

 some 200 yards from the house. He wounded it at the end 

 of October 1881, and killed it a fortnight later. 



Mr. Millais considers this species a rare spring visitor. 



Mr. Harvey says that the Greylag Goose or Wild Goose 

 occurs in Sanday during the winter. 



On October 18th, 1889, Mr. Baikie of Tankerness killed a 



