also breeds in the great marshes on the lower course of
the Danube. In captivity this Goose soon becomes
perfectly tame, often aggressive, but at Lilford has never
bred either with its own species or with any of its
congeners. In other places, however, it has, as might
be expected, occasionally paired with the domestic race,
and the offspring in at least one instance are said to
have been prolific. An old gander of this species that
we winged on the Guadalquivir in 1882, and kept on
the deck of my yacht during a subsequent cruise in the
Mediterranean, very soon made himself master of the
“ situation,” and drilled our dog, some Gulls, and a
Heron into abject submission and fear. This bird is
still alive, and in command of a small flock of other
pinioned Geese of his own and other species, on one of
our ponds at Lilford at this time of writing—November
1898.
