252 WAITE: THE MAGELLANIC GOOSE IN YORKSHIRE. 
Hewetson, asking me if the bird he heard I had obtained was his 
Australian Quail which he had lost. In this case also it had only 
travelled a very short distance. 
Among other birds I have a pair of Golden Pheasants, and 
during the spring of 1890, when the male bird was calling loudly, a 
neighbour told me to take my gun, as a hen pheasant had been 
attracted by the cries of the bird and was squatting under a hedge in 
the garden. I did so, but saw that the visitor was a female 
Golden Pheasant, so, exchanging the gun for an entomological net, 
I approached the bird and picked it up with my hand, for it did not 
offer the slightest resistance. The Pheasant must have flown some 
distance, as I inquired from everyone in the district whom I knew 
to possess an aviary or a pheasantry, but none of them had lost a 
bird, and no one having claimed it, it still walks the aviary at 
Headingley. 
My main object in writing is to record the capture at 
Bishopthorpe, near York, of a pair ? of Upland or Magellanic Geese 
(Bernicla magellanica), which, if it could be proved were genuine 
occurrences, would be the first recorded examples this side of the 
Atlantic 
I haves no wish, however, to suggest this ; for, although the fact 
that the plumage of the bird seen by me was perfect, and that the 
wings had not been interfered with, would foster the suspicion that 
it had never been inside a wired area, the immense improbability of 
it having crossed the Atlantic and landed here in safety should at 
once dispel any doubts on this point. 
As, however, I have no clue whence the birds came, and as the 
female is now in the Zoological Gardens in London, some particulars 
as to its capture may be interesting. Moreover, in the published 
‘Additions to the Zoological Society’s Gardens,’ it is stated in 
‘ Nature’ to be from the Falkland Islands, and in ‘ The Field’ from 
Patagonia, the native homes of the bird. It would naturally be 
inferred that the goose had been merely imported and had not beep 
captured on British soil. 
On the oth ves March last, the Rev. J. Chaloner, of Newton Kyme, 
wrote to me I have just had brought to me a 
small goose caught n near isieasbctpe (alive), I cannot make it out 
ae Chelona several times asked me to see the bird, and as in his 
later letters he wrote about having it killed and mounted, I visited 
Newton Kyme on the 21st of May and saw the goose. I advised 
my friend to present it to the Zoological mor and gleaned the 
following particulars as to its capture. 
: Naturalist, 
