THE WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 
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band attended at the Garden, and from two to three hundred 
people were assembled. So soon as they broke up into groups, after 
the cessation of each piece of music, the goose took the part of 
clown on such occasions at a theatre, and was “ the observed of 
all observers,” as it paid its respects to party after party by running 
towards them with its neck outstretched almost on a level with 
the ground. On one of these occasions, in particular, it caused 
much amusement by following like an humble servitor at the 
heels of the lady of highest rank present (a marchioness) for, 
perhaps, a couple of hours, and bestowing no attention or bold- 
ness on any other party. In justice to the goose, we must, perhaps, 
rather attribute this partiality to something attractive in the dress 
of the lady, than to any unworthy tuft-hunting propensity. After 
being about a year in the Garden, the goose disappeared, and not 
much to the curator’s regret, as it showed little regard to the 
“ Arrangement of British Herbaceous Plants ” in the vicinity of 
its pond being preserved intact, having often levied considerable* 
contributions from the soft and more tender kinds; among 
the saxifrages, sometimes not a leaf was left to tell of their former 
whereabouts. 
To the wilds of Connaught this species resorts every winter, and 
associates commonly with the bean goose."* It is brought during 
that season of every year to the market of Dublin, where more 
individuals of the white-fronted than of the species just mentioned 
have been seen by Mr. B. Ball. An extensive hawker of wild fowl 
also states that it has come more frequently under his notice there 
than the bean goose. It has not been seen by Mr. Ball at Youghal, 
on the southern coast, and, indeed, in the south generally, the 
species is considered very rare. The f Pauna of Cork’ announces 
it merely as having been met with in that county. “ In Kerry, two 
individuals have been obtained, one of which w r as rescued from the 
claws of a raven, and lived some time afterwards in confinement, 
becoming quite familiar.” f In severe weather, a very few have 
occasionally been killed in the counties of Wexford J and Water- 
* Mr. G. Jackson. f Mr. R. Chute. 
Major T. Walker. 
