156 BEAN GOOSE 
to Mr. Crellin, very unusual numbers of Wild Geese passed 
over the north of the island, but the species does not in any 
case appear to have been ascertained. 
In the collection of the late Mr. T. H. Kinvig, of Castle- 
town, is a specimen of this species taken in the neigh- 
bourhood. 
One ‘ Wild Goose’ only, a native, appears in the dealers’ 
record for 1902; in 1903 none is entered. 
This species is in general rare in Ireland, where, however, 
it likely bred in the eighteenth century, among other places, 
in the Ards, Co. Down. There is a semi-domesticated 
colony in Fermanagh, and it occurs every winter on the 
Wicklow coast. In Galloway and Cumberland, and seem- 
ingly also in Lancashire, it is uncommon. It still nests in 
many of the Outer Hebrides, but appears to be a rare visitor 
to Orkney and Shetland. 
ANSER SEGETUM (Gmelin). BEAN GOOSE. 
This species doubtless visits the isle not infrequently, 
though little definite information is obtainable. A Bean 
Goose in Mr. Baily’s collection was, he tells me, one of 
seven shot in the meadows at Ballasalla. There is another 
among the birds of the late Mr. Kinvig at Castletown. 
Two Geese obtained at Scarlett in November 1904 must 
have been of this species from the description of Mr. Wm. 
Kissack, who shot one of them. 
In Britain generally the Bean Goose is fairly abundant 
and well distributed. It is comparatively common on the 
Solway; elsewhere round the Irish Sea it seldom seems to 
be numerous. From the Scottish isles it appears to be 
absent, or rare where it occurs. 
