also breeds in the great marshes on the lower course of 

 the Danube. In captivity this Goose soon becomes 

 perfectly tame, often aggressive, but at Lilford has never 

 bred either with its own species or with any of its 

 congeners. In other places, however, it has, as might 

 be expected, occasionally paired with the domestic race, 

 and the offspring in at least one instance are said to 

 have been prolific. An old gander of this species that 

 we winged on the Guadalquivir in 1882, and kept on 

 the deck of my yacht during a subsequent cruise in the 

 Mediterranean, very soon made himself master of the 

 " situation," and drilled our dog, some Gulls, and a 

 Heron into abject submission and fear. This bird is 

 still alive, and in command of a small flock of other 

 pinioned Geese of his own and other species, on one of 

 our ponds at Lilford at this time of writing — November 

 1893. 



