72 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
NOTES AND "QUE RPS: 

AVES. 
Domestication of the Jackdaw.—About the middle of June, 1907, 
I brought home two young Jackdaws from a neighbouring village, 
which were allowed their liberty about the place with uncut wings, 
and only shut up at night. At the time of the autumn migration 
their habits became rather erratic, so that sometimes we did not see 
them for two or three days at a time, and on November 9th we had 
what we thought was the last visit from one. However, on January 
14th we were surprised to see him return, none the worse for the 
sharp frost, which must have made food difficult to obtain. He was 
as tame and friendly as ever, perching on the arm of his mistress and 
feeding from her hand, and up to the present (January 21st) he has 
come back every morning, going away at night. It would have 
surprised us less had he appeared at the return migration in March 
or April, and there is a record in the ‘ Birds of Norfolk’ (vol. i. p. 279) 
of a Jackdaw which returned after nearly a year’s absence, coming to 
the call of the boy who used to feed it, and settling on his shoulder. 
Certainly there are no bird-pets to compare with full-winged Jack- 
daws for tameness and sociable habits ; these two birds, for example, 
would accompany my daughters and their dogs for long walks about 
the fields and meadows, and spend hours with usin the garden, where 
their attentions to fruit and flowers were not always of a desirable 
nature. But at the same time there are no pets more likely to be 
lost.—Juuian G. Tuck (Tostock Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds). 
Bean-Geese on the Dee Marshes.—As there appears to be some 
doubt as to the occurrence of the Bean-Goose (Anser segetuwm) on 
these marshes, it may be worth recording that on January 22nd 
last I saw a “gaggle” of fifteen of this species near Puddington. 
The difference between this bird and the Pink-footed Goose (Anser 
brachyrhynchus) was very apparent with the aid of a telescope at a 
reasonable distance. Compared with the Pink-footed—of which there 
are large numbers annually on the salt-marshes—the Bean-Goose is 
considerably less wary, and is apparently a more silent bird both on 
the wing and on the ground. I walked towards them for some 
distance in the open before they took wing, which they did without 
uttering a sound.—_S. G. Cummines (Upton, Chester). 
