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that on the 10th or 11th (the following day or the second 
after the pair was killed), he saw a flock of about eighteen fly 
over his ship-yard at Belfast, very low, and proceed in the direc- 
tion of Lough Neagh. Subsequently, but in what year I do not 
recollect, I saw a couple on sale in a poulterer's shop in that 
town. 
I cannot think that the birds here noticed were truly wild, 
though this species may, possibly, as well as others from the south- 
east of Europe and north of Africa, occasionally visit this island. 
A place is given to the Egyptian goose among British birds by 
Yarrell and Jardine, and among those of Belgium by De Selys 
Longchamps. 
About thirty-five years ago, Egyptian geese were kept in num- 
bers on lakes in Hillsborough Park, county Down, and the only 
time at which any could be captured was the moulting season. 
A friend, who had lost one of his, wished its place supplied, and 
with permission from Lord Downshire to take a bird from his 
stock, went thither, where, after considerable difficulty, he suc- 
ceeded in rowing one down. 
The Spur-winged or Gambo Goose (Anser Gambensis , Briss.) has 
a place in the British catalogue, from the circumstance of a single in- 
dividual having been obtained in Cornwall, in June 1821. The species 
is a native of northern and western Africa. 
THE BUDDY SHELLDBAKE. 
Eerruginous Duck, Bewick, edit. 1826. 
Tadorna rutila, Pallas (sp.) 
Anas casarJca, Linn. 
Has once been obtained ; 
As noticed by me in tke f Annals of Natural History' (vol. xx. 
p. 171). The bird was shot on the Murrough of Wicklow by 
Mr. John Moreton, of that town, on the 7th of July, 1847. The 
Murrough is an extensive, low, sandy tract bordering the sea, 
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