THE BIRDS OE AUSTRALIA. 
note of the gander is a harsh cackling screech, while that of the goose is 
more of a deep guttural note somewhat like the grunting of the pig : this is 
especially noticeable when the male bird is ‘ talking,’ and his mate replies 
by putting her head down to the ground and ‘ talks ’ back to him.” 
A note from Captain S. A. White confirms the preceding, while Mr. Frank 
Littler writes that although “ vigorously prosecuting inquiries among masters 
of river and coastal traders, one and all have never seen this species on the 
Tamar, Tasmania.” 
Mr. T. P. Austin (North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 60, 
1913) writes : “A few years ago Cape Barren Geese {Cereopsis novoehollandice) 
were rather numerous throughout the western district of Victoria, and were 
always a favourite bird with the sportsmen. To shoot them, however, their 
habits had to be thoroughly understood ; in the first place, in their native 
state, they are one of the wildest of Australian birds ; secondly, they are 
very seldom seen anywhere near cover from which they could be shot. 
When they fly it is usually in the same direction each time, and at no great 
height, so it is only those who know where to find them and where they 
are most likely to fly who can shoot them.” 
Mr. G. A. Heartland (ih.) stated : “ Around the coast of Western 
Australia they are often seen flying from adjacent islands to the mainland. 
At Green Island they breed freely, laying from three to five eggs, and rearing 
two broods in a season.” 
The bird figured and described is a male, collected at North Twin Peaks 
Island in the S.E. of West Australia on the 6th of May, 1909, and is 
the type of C. n. georgi. 
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