64 



ANATID-E. 



NATATORES. 



ANATIBM. 



THE PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 



Anser phcenicopus. Pink-footed Goose, Bartlett, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1839, p. 3. 

 ,, brachyrhynchus, Baillon, ,, ,, ,, ,, p. 124. 



,, „ Oie a bee court, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. pt. iv. p. 520. 



On the 8tli of January, 1839, at the first evening meeting 

 of the Zoological Society in that year, Mr, Bartlett exhibited 

 several species of Geese in order to illustrate a paper which 

 he communicated to the meeting on a new British species 

 of the genus A user, for which he proposed the name of phce- 

 nicnpus, on account of the pink colour of the feet, with re- 

 marks on the nearly allied species. 



On the 10th of September, in the same year, a communi- 

 cation was received by the Zoological Society from M. 

 Baillon, of Abbeville, stating that he had described in 1833, 



