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round over some pop-gunners, that would have scared 
them off by a useless discharge out of reach, but for my 
men, who prevented their firing. I ran out, jumped into 
the punt, and set off to the birds on the mud, just before 
the quay, and cut them up both quite dead before a 
multitude of spectators. I never saw or heard of but 
three barnacles so far south as our coast — one that I shot 
ashore many years ago and these two splendid specimens." 
One was procured at St. Cross, near Winchester, in 
1877, and is in the Winchester College collection ; another 
at Ringwood in 1878. (Corbin.) 
Mr. Hart has specimens in his collection procured on 
January 19th, 1892, and April 7th, 1892. 
In the Isle of Wight, More records two shot in Fresh- 
water Bay in March, 1858; and Dr. Cowper says it has 
been obtained a few times in severe winters. 
\_Bernicla canadensis, Canada Goose, 
Another introduced species, which frequently occurs 
in an apparently wild state, but, like the Egyptian Goose, 
can only be considered as escaped from captivity, or 
sprung from semi-wild parents. 
Up to about the year 1890, a pair belonging to the 
Earl of Portsmouth nested for many seasons on an island 
in the river at Hurstbourne, and frequently reared their 
young.] 
