[15] ‘Poultry Chronicle,’ vol. iii. 1855, p. 312. With respect to Rouens see ditto vol. i. 1854, p. 167.
[16] Col. Hawker’s ‘Instructions to young Sportsmen,’ quoted by Mr. Dixon in his ‘Ornamental Poultry,’ p. 125.
[17] ‘Cottage Gardener,’ April 9th, 1861.
[18] These hybrids have been described by M. Selys-Longchamps in the ‘Bulletins (tom. xii. No 10) Acad. Roy. de Bruxelles.’
[19] ‘Proc. Zoolog. Soc.,’ 1861, p. 261.
[20] ‘Ceylon,’ by Sir J. E. Tennent, 1859, vol. i. p. 485; also J. Crawfurd on the ‘Relation of Domest. Animals to Civilisation,’ read before Brit. Assoc. 1860. See also ‘Ornamental Poultry,’ by Rev. E. S. Dixon, 1848, p. 132. The goose figured on the Egyptian monuments seems to have been the Red goose of Egypt.
[21] Macgillivray’s ‘British Birds,’ vol. iv. p. 593.
[22] Mr. A. Strickland (‘Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.,’ 3rd series, vol. iii. 1859, p. 122) reared some young wild geese, and found them in habits and in all characters identical with the domestic goose.
[23] See also Hunter’s ‘Essays,’ edited by Owen, vol. ii. p. 322.
[24] Yarrell’s ‘British Birds,’ vol. iii. p. 142.