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Thos. Denton’s ‘ Description, dated 1681, printed in 
Y. L. M., iti. 435, from a manuscript in the possession of 
Mr. G. W. Wood, mentions in its very incorrect enumera- 
tion of the game and wild fowl of Man, after ‘all sorts of 
sea ffowl, especially Puffins, w°? breed most plentiful in y® 
Calfe of Man. ‘And those Ducks and Drakes, w°" breed- 
ing of Rotten wood, y® English call y™ Barnacles, y® Scots 
Clakes, or Soland Geese.’ In the ‘Additions’ to the 
account of the Isle of Man in Camden’s Britannia (1695) it 
is said: ‘They have likewise another sort of fowl in this 
little island (the Calf) which the inhabitants call barnacles, 
commonly said to be the same with the soland geese of 
Scotland, but really the soland geese in that Kingdom 
have no affinity to barnacles, being of quite another kind.’ 
(Mana Soc., xviii. 12.) 
In Ireland, where this species is local, it is said to be 
a regular visitant to Dundalk Bay and the Donegal coast ; 
and in Kirkcudbrightshire the commonest of the Geese. 
In north-western England it is well known, but abundant 
only at certain times and in certain localities. In the 
Outer Hebrides it is very common, but scarce or local in 
Orkney and Shetland. It is in England decidedly a west 
coast species. 
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CANADA GOOSE. 
A specimen of this well-known species, often kept on 
ornamental waters, was shot by Mr. Baily some years ago, 
as he informs me, in the tideway off Langness. ] 
1 Denton also says: ‘Here are Bernacles bread in or near this Island (Peel), 
but (not) having been at y® place I cannot give any further description of it,’ ete. 
(Y. L. M., iii. 441.) 
