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NATURAL HISTOEY OF THE WILD GOOSE. 



battue, has overrun the land with a plague of phea- 

 sants and hares, and transformed the gentleman pre- 

 server into an amateur poultry butcher. When our 

 bad game code shall be reformed, as it ought and 

 must, a bad foreign fancy will be got rid of, and once 

 again our woods and fields shall be sought by those 

 who desire to take their RECREATIONS IN SHOOTING. 



THE GRET LA.G GOOSE. 



The Wild Goose, or Grey Lag, of British authors 

 (Anas anser). This is but one of six wild species 

 of geese that visit our islands in great quantities. 

 Colonel Hawker thus specifies them : The Bean 

 Goose ; a variety of the common one : The Bernacle ; 

 most common in Ireland and Scotland (and a smaller 



