...breast and belly whitish, clouded with grey ; the back grey also ; and the legs of a flesh-colour. This species resides in the fens the whole year, breeds there, and hatches about eight or nine at a brood, which are frequently taken and brought up tame: their flesh is reckoned higher flavoured...

...The young, when captured, according to the same authority, were often tamed (in his day) ; they were esteemed most excellent meat, superior to the domestic goose. The old geese which are shot are, he says, plucked and sold in the market as fine tame ones, and readily bought, the purchaser being...

...rarely twelve or fourteen, of a dirty greenish-white — Gould says sullied white. Pennant states that this species resides in the fens the whole year, breeds...Domestic Goose. The old geese, which are shot, are, he says, plucked, and sold in the market as fine tame ones, and readily bought, the purchaser being...

...rarely twelve or fourteen, of a dirty greenish-white — Gould says sullied white. Pennant states that this species resides in the fens the whole year, breeds...Domestic Goose. The old geese, which are shot, are, he says, plucked, and sold in the market as fine tame ones, and readily bought, the purchaser being...

...year as the 12th edition of the ' Systema ' of Linnaeus), he remarked of the Greylag Goose : — " This species resides in the fens the whole year ;...which are often taken, easily made tame, and esteemed roost excellent meat, superior to the domestic goose. The old geese which are shot are plucked and...

...as to Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, more particularly as no one county is specially referred to. "This species resides in the fens the whole year ;...plucked and sold in the market, as fine tame ones, and are readily bought, the purchaser being deceived by the size, but their flesh is coarse. Towards winter...

...they fed in flocks on the recently harvested fields. Pennant, in 1776, wrote of the grey-lag goose : " This species resides in the fens the whole year ;...plucked and sold in the market as fine tame ones, and are readily bought, the purchaser being deceived by their size ; but the flesh is coarse. Towards winter...

..." under the head of Grey-lag Goose, he is rather more explicit. " This species," we are informed, " resides in the fens the whole year, breeds there,...taken, easily made tame, and esteemed most excellent meat."f It was from this stock that the greater part of England's domestic geese had sprung. But that...

...This species," we are informed, " resides in the fens the whole year, breeds there, and hatches ahout eight or nine young, which are often taken, easily made tame, and esteemed most excellent meat."f It was from this stock that the greater part of England's domestic geese had sprung. But that...