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feet (c/. Field, 1908, p. 182, 410). On this point M. Alpheraky 

 {op. cit., p. 89) remarks that he can find but one record of such 

 an occurrence in the wild bird (Payne-Gallvvey, Letters to 

 Young Shooters, 3rd Series, p. 69), although it has been recorded 

 that Pink-footed Geese bred in captivity sometimes have both 

 the bill and the feet yellow. 



SNOW-GOOSE Chen hyperboreus (Pall.). S. page 405. 



Ireland. — A female in excellent plumage was shot in 

 CO. Longford on October 28th, 1903. It was in company 

 with another bird, also shot, but not preserved, which was 

 described as " dark in the plumage," and may have been a 

 young bird of the same species (Williams and Son, Zool., 1903, 

 p. 459). Four were observed flying overhead within forty 

 yards at Foxford, co. Mayo, on December 1st, 1903 (G. F. 

 Knox, Irish Nat., 1904, p. 76, and R. Warren, Zool, 1904, 

 p. 32). On December 30th, 1906, Captain Kirkwood saw a 

 flock of fourteen (four white adults and ten greyish-coloured 

 birds) at Bartragh, co. Mayo (R. Warren, t.c, 1907, p. 72). 



Greater Snow-Goose Chen nivalis Forster. 

 (c/. S. page 406.) 

 This form, which is only to be distinguished from the fore- 

 going species by its larger size, inhabits Arctic America, 

 whereas the smaller bird is apparently conflned, as a breeding 

 species, to eastern Siberia and the western shores of Arctic 

 America (c/. Alpheraky, op. cit., p. 15). A specimen of this 

 bird was shot near Belmullet, co. Mayo (? date), and was 

 exhibited by Dr. R. B. Sharpe on behalf of Mr. R. J. Ussher 

 at the November, 1899 meeting of the Brit. Orn. Club {Bull. 

 B.O.C., X., XV.). 



BRENT GOOSE Bernicla brenta (PaU.). S. page 411. 



An adult female of the American Black Brent {B. 

 nigricans) is said by Mr. F. Coburn to have been shot by a 

 wildfowler, named Richardson, in the Wash " deeps " 

 (Norfolk), on January 15th, 1907, and sent to him (c/. J. H. 

 Gurney, Zool, 1908, pp. 121 and 123 and Plate). Mr. Coburn 

 informs Mr. Gurney that a male of the same species was shot 

 by the same wildfowler near Lynn and sent to him on 

 February 14th, 1902. If the occurrence of a bird new to 

 the British hst is to be accepted as authentic, it is far more 

 satisfactory wherever possible that it should be examined 

 in the flesh by two or more ornithologists, and recorded at 

 the time, than that it should be recorded for the first time 

 months and even years after it was obtained. 

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