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ther taken alive about the same time near 
Wycliffe and kept there for several years 
in a pond among some Ducks, where it be- 
came quite tame and familiar. Mr. Wigg 
of Yarmouth informs us that he purchased 
a specimen in the Market-place of that 
borough a few years since ; there is also a 
specimen in theLondon Museum^ recently 
killed, and we are assured that the speci- 
men formerly in the Leverian Museum, was 
purchased at the late sale of Mr. Donovan's 
Birds, by Mr. Foljambe for fifteen guineas 
and a half. 
They are said to be quite free from any 
fishy taste. 
* Since the above went to press, that splended col- 
lection has been brought to the hammer, and totally 
dispersed : the specimen of the Red-breasted Goose 
has been purchased by Dr. Leach, for the British Mu- 
seum at 27L 
