. Cassell's natural history . re secured alive. According to ]M. Hailly, those seen by him at Preservation Island evinced so littleshyness, and suffered themselves to be approached so readily, that his boats creW wereable, without any ti-ouble, to procure a sufficient quaritity to victual them during theirstay. The flesh of these geese is described by I3ass as being excellent; DMntrecasteauxconsidered it much more delicate than that of the European goose ; and Flanders statesthat on Prescvation Island it formed the best repasts of his men. These birds are to be seen in the gardens of the Zoolo
. Cassell's natural history . re secured alive. According to ]M. Hailly, those seen by him at Preservation Island evinced so littleshyness, and suffered themselves to be approached so readily, that his boats creW wereable, without any ti-ouble, to procure a sufficient quaritity to victual them during theirstay. The flesh of these geese is described by I3ass as being excellent; DMntrecasteauxconsidered it much more delicate than that of the European goose ; and Flanders statesthat on Prescvation Island it formed the best repasts of his men. These birds are to be seen in the gardens of the Zoological Society. Some of themformed a part of an extensive, royal collection kept, in the reign of the last king, atAVindsor. They bred there as freely as the emeus wr any of the other animals of NewIfnlland, and were all descended from one pair, oiiginally brouglit to tliis birds are perfectly tamo, and in their beha\iour resemble geese, but with moredisjjosition to become familinr. * Cwcopsib NoViC AnC (Alca Impennis).2 & —THK BLACK-13I1XKD AUK (Alca Torila).•■3.—THK KINO PENGUIN (Aptmodijirs Patagonica). THE EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 577 THE ECiYTTIAN GOOSE. Aristotle mentions bird as haunting tlio banks of lakes and rivers. It is alsonamed in two of the comedies of Aristoplianes. Athenojus praises it on account of itseggs, giving them the second place, those of the peacock being assigned the first; and^^lian alludes to its cunning. Herodotus, however, directs special attention to the Egyptian Goose. He shows it washeld sacred by the Egyptians, and modern travellers found evidence of its being, at least, afavourite dish among the priests. Mr. Salt remarks: Horns Apollo sajs, the old geesestay with their young in the most imminent danger, at the of their own lives, ■whichI have myself frequently witnessed. Nulpanscr is the Goose of the Nile, and whereverthis goose is represented on the walls of the temples in colours, the re
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