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sandbank, perhaps a mile or two from 

 shore. They seldom, if ever, frequent the 

 mud-flats or the salt-marshes to feed on 

 the marine vegetation, of which the Brent 

 and the Bernacle Goose are so fond." 



Mr. Cordeaux, in his "Birds of the 

 Humber District," says, it " occurs occa- 

 sionally, but never in such large flocks 

 as the Bean-Goose. It is not unfrequently 

 found singly, or two or three together, 

 in our marshes and lowlands, and is more 

 easily approached than either the Grey 

 Lag- or Bean-Goose. In its habits it 

 prefers low-lying districts, and wet carr 

 or marsh land near the coast, as a rule, 

 not resorting to the higher wolds to the 

 same extent as its congener, the Bean- 

 Goose." 



Referring to a Goose they found on 

 Spitsbergen, and which must undoubtedly 

 have been the Pink-footed Goose, Messrs. 

 Evans and Sturge state that they found 

 it " breeding mostly on low rocks near 

 the coast ; but some seemed to have 

 their nests in the high cliffs a mile or 

 two from the sea." Mr. Trevor-Battye 

 has given us a very good account of this 

 Goose at its summer quarters in Spits- 

 bergen. He says : " The Pink-footed 

 Goose is distributed thinly, but generally, 



