such a small stock it is difficult to speak certainly as to 

 migration. I doubt whether they do migrate, for I 

 have seen some about in almost every month of the 

 year. My own flock, most of which are practically 

 wild, never leave, or, rather, never have left, till this 

 summer (1893), when they were absent for two months ; 

 but I ascertained that they were only at the other end 

 of Loch Maree, and they have all returned now (Sep- 

 tember 10, 1893). The perfectly Wild Grey-Lags all 

 nest on inland lochs, and when their young are able they 

 make their way to islands in the sea, whence they resort 

 to adjacent cultivated land or other spots where grass is 

 plentiful. Of course it is possible that some may go 

 south, especially from the Hebrides, in some parts of 

 which they are still rather more numerous. The flocks 

 of Wild Geese that we sometimes see passing here 

 appear to be either Pink-footed or White-fronted. 

 I thought that they were all the former, until on 

 February 23, 1893, I shot one which proved to be 

 White-fronted." 



For the origin of the term " Lag " as applied to this 

 species, I will merely say that it has obviously no con- 

 nexion with " leg," and has probably reference to the 

 former " lagging " of this species to breed in our fen- 

 districts, from which all the other species of Wild 

 Goose departed at the approach of summer. I quote 

 this, not quite verbatim, from the 4th edition of Yarrell. 



This Goose is said to breed in Iceland, on the west 

 coast of Norway, in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, 

 some parts of Germany, and very exceptionally in 

 Southern Spain. I have good reason to believe that it 



