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wild brent geese towards each other, and towards all kinds of 

 ducks; — they call them "innocent birds/^ Wigeon, mallards, 

 &c., may frequently be observed mingled with them on the water, 

 towards the extremity of the flock. On wing, they do not asso- 

 ciate with any other of the Anatidce. 



THE RED-BREASTED GOOSE. 



Anser nijicollis, Pall. 



Cannot be recorded with certainty. 



When in Dublin, in March 1833, I was informed by a person 

 to whom tJie species was well known, that about five years pre- 

 viously he had seen a specimen in the shop of Mr. Glennon ; on 

 inquiry of whom, I learned that the bird had been sent to him in 

 a fresh state, to be preserved, but he was not aware where it had 

 been killed. That it was procured on our coast is at least a fair 

 inference. 



Very few individuals of this species — of wliich little is known 

 in any country — have been obtained in England, and none in 

 Scotland. The bird is a native of the north of Asia. 



THE EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 



Anser ^gyptiacu8y\j\xm.{%-^) 



Has occasionally been shot on the coast. 



But from the circumstance of the species being kept on ponds, 

 whence it sometimes wanders, I have not always committed to 

 writing the instances in which it was obtained. Two notes only 

 on the subject are before me. The first mentions one bird as 

 having been shot near Moira, county Down, in the middle of 

 January 1833. The second, my having, on the 12th of October, 

 1834, seen two individuals which were shot from a flock of fifteen 

 on the river Lagan, near Belfast, on the 9th of that month. A 

 gentleman of my acquaintance, on seeing these specimens, stated 



