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gander most assiduously attended to and defended his partner, flying 
at any one that approached her, and buffeting him with all his strength. 
Tame Goose , male, and Canada Goose , female, produced a brood of 
three young at the Palls (Mr. Sinclaire’s country- place), near Belfast. 
These hybrids were coarse, ugly -looking birds, and their carriage that 
of the tame goose, without any indication of the fine bold bearing 
of the A. Canadensis , which, in colour, they resembled more than their 
other parent. Their neck and head were of a pale “ clove-brown,” 
where those of A. Canadensis are black, and a mere lighter shade of 
this colour on the sides of the head, took the place of the pure white 
mark in this species. 
Swan Goose ( Anser cygnoides ), male, and Tame Goose , female, suc- 
cessively for some years produced broods at Wolfhill, near Belfast. 
The general appearance of these hybrids at once denoted their origin, 
partaking, as it obviously did, of the characters of both parents. 
Bean Goose ( Anser segetum), male, Canada Goose, female. — According 
to Mr. R. Ball, two hybrids, presumed from their appearance to have 
been so produced, were bred in the Zoological Gardens, Phoenix Park, 
Dublin, in 1843. They are very handsome birds, and apparently 
heavier than either parent ; in plumage liker the female than the male : 
— of late (December 1850), they have become lighter-coloured in the 
neck than formerly. The hybrids go about as if under sexual influence, 
but do not take up with other species. The female parent paired two or 
three times with the swan goose (. A . cygnoides'), but there has been no 
produce. 
Spur-winged Goose ( A . Gambensis), male, and Egyptian Goose ( A . 
Mgyptiacus) i female, have bred in the gardens of the Zoological So- 
ciety, Phoenix Park, Dublin, as already mentioned by Yarrell. 
Slielldrake\A. vulpanser), male, and Common Tame Buck (A. boschas ), 
female. — A shelldrake, at the Palls, bred two or three seasons succes- 
sively with a tame duck, in colour like a wild one, and it is believed 
(though not now positively remembered) with the same individual each 
season. Several young — very handsome birds — were produced in 
each instance. Neither males nor females had a white feather in their 
plumage, but were of a uniform brownish colour, with a bronzed me- 
tallic lustre ; the males deeper in tint than the females. They had a 
fine erect carriage like the shelldrake. A pair of these hybrids, male 
and female, were given to John Templeton, Esq., of Cranmore, near 
