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ANATID M. 
ford.* January and February are the months (according to 
my notes) in which the white-fronted goose has chiefly been 
procured. 
Audubon gives, from personal observation, a pleasing account 
of this species, vol. iii. p. 568. 
M. Duval- Jouve, in an interesting paper on the f Migratory 
Birds of Provence/ published in the f Zoologist 9 for October 
1845, remarks that the “ Grey- legged goose, Anas anser 3 passes 
in March and April, and re-passes from the first cold of autumn 
until the beginning of winter : it only rests here when the weather 
is very cold. Bean goose, Anas segetum , passes at the same 
periods as the preceding species, but is more rare. White- 
fronted goose, Anas albifrons , passes with the two preceding, but 
is more rare than either” (p. 1130). 
Grey Lag Goose. — Since the matter on this species was printed 
off, the following note was obtained, which it is considered better 
to bring in here than reserve for the appendix. 
March 1850. — Some of these birds were introduced to a lake 
at Castle Code, the seat of the Earl of Belmore, in the county of 
Fermanagh, by Colonel Corry, about one hundred and twenty 
years ago, and by their breeding there annually since, the stock 
has been kept up. They build — with straw which is supplied to 
them — on an island in the lake, where there are usually from 
sixteen to twenty nests, but not more than ten -pair usually 
hatch ; — three birds have sometimes laid eggs in one nest. These 
geese have always kept entirely by themselves, and never bred 
with the tame goose or any other species. The flock has some- 
times numbered from ninety to one hundred individuals, but has 
been decreasing of late years, and at present contains only twenty- 
four. The diminution has arisen from their being shot outside 
the demesne, particularly during the late year of the famine, and 
from less care being bestowed on them, as to feeding, &c., than 
formerly. Some of the young are annually devoured by pike. 
* Dr. R. J. Burkitt. 
