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to confirm this statement. In Ireland it is a regular 
winter visitant. 
PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. Anser brachyrhynchus, Baillon. 
A winter visitant. Said to have been found breed- 
ing by Macgillivray on the islands in the Sound of 
Harris, and on the lakes of North Uist; but subse- 
quent observation showed that he had mistaken the 
Grey Lag Goose for this species. Mr. Robert Gray 
says the Pink-footed Goose is only found in the 
winter months in any part of Scotland; and, with the 
exception of the western islands, no locality can 
boast of it in any numbers. 
According to Mr. Thompson, ‘‘it cannot yet be 
announced as obtained in Ireland, though particularly 
looked for of late years.” 
WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. Anser albifrons (Gmelin). 
A winter visitant to England, Scotland, and Ireland, 
but somewhat local in its distribution. 
It has been clearly shown by Professor Newton, in 
a paper read before the Zoological Society in June 
1860*, that Linneus applied the specific name 
‘“erythropus” to the smaller race of White-fronted 
Goose, known as Anser minutus of Naumann, and 
Anser tenuninckii of Boie, which inhabits Lapland, 
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and which does not visit Great Britain. The larger 
White-fronted Goose, which visits the British Islands 
* P.Z.S. 1860, p. 539; reprinted in ‘The Ibis,’ 1860, p. 404. 
