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preserved, informed us that the bird was 
amazingly shy,$ and that he repeatedly for 
two or three successive days endeavoured to 
get a shot at it without effect ; at length he 
succeeded by driving a horse up to the ca- 
nal and shooting at the bird from under the 
horse's belly, A specimen now in our 
possession, for which we are indebted to the 
kindness of the Rev. G. Lucas, was shot 
by G. Montagu, Esq. (we believe nephew 
to the celebrated Ornithologist of that 
name) at Great Ormsby, near Yarmouth, 
in the month of Sept. 1815, after a very 
heavy gale of wind from the east. Another 
specimen is now in the possession of the 
Rev. B. Phil pot of Sibton Park, near Yox- 
ford ; this specimen was killed in Suffolk, 
Buffon observes that the Egyptian 
Goose journeys or strays in its excursions 
sometimes to a vast distance from its native 
country : that represented in our PL Enl. 
was killed on a pool near Senlis ; and from 
*■ Temminck does not give the Egyptian Goose as a 
European species ; he seems to be of opinion that if 
any have been killed at large, thev must have escaped 
from a state of domestication, 
