THE CANADA GOOSE. 
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argument against the birds which have been shot on the coast, 
having migrated thither. 
Notes upon their occurrence are as follow : — 
February 7, 1838. Four Canada geese appeared, most appro- 
priately, on the pond in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, which may be 
called the aquatic menagerie of the Royal Zoological Garden. 
About the end of April the same year, one was shot at the low 
line of coast called the Murrough of Wicklow ; and about the 
same time a second was procured, in the vicinity of Rathmines, 
not far from Dublin. Both birds are stated to have been very 
wary, unlike individuals which had escaped from confinement. 
In April , 1839, one was shot in Larne Lough, county of 
Antrim : — it is preserved in the Ordnance Museum. 
January 27, 1810. I learned, by letter from Dr. C. Farran, 
that he received at this date, from Mr. John King, Bremore, 
Balbriggan (county Dublin), a Canada goose, which he shot, 
after sedulously watching the bird for two or three days. He at 
last got within reach of it, on a small pool of fresh water, near 
the shore, during a gale from the south-east. The bird was in 
rather poor condition, and weighed 8-j- lbs. 
June 12, 1811. A pair were shot at Dundrum, on the coast 
of Down. The male bird weighed 13, the female 10^, lbs. A 
fowler saw a pair, and perhaps the same, in Belfast bay, a few 
days before the birds were killed at Dundrum. The specimens 
were preserved for the Marquis of Downshire, and came under 
my inspection when in the hands of the taxidermist : the wings 
of both were quite perfect. 
According to the Annual Report of the Dublin Natural History 
Society for 1818, “Mr. R. P. Williams presented to the Society a 
fine specimen of the Canada goose (Anas Canadensis), shot by 
Mr, R. Quin, of Firgrove, Innishannon, on the Bandon river, 
between that place and Kinsale, in March, 1816. It appeared 
in a flock with five others, after a severe snow-storm. Mr. Quin 
had observed a flock of the same birds in the preceding winter, 
but imagined that they had escaped from some neighbouring 
preserve.” 
