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in the Memoirs of tlic Society of Emulation of Abbeville, a 

 new species of goose, to which he had given the name of 

 hrachyrfiynchus, because it appeared to him that one of its 

 most striking characters consisted in the shortness of its beak. 

 This bird proved to be of the same species as the one de- 

 scribed by Mr. Bartlett; but I believe I am correct in stating 

 that at the time Mr. Bartlett proposed his name for this new 

 Goose in 1839, no one here was aware that M. Baillon liad 

 described and named the same species in the Memoirs of the 

 Society of Emulation of Abbeville, in 1833. M. Baillon's 

 name, of course, has the precedence, and will be adopted by 

 others, as it has been by M. Temminck ; Mr. Bartlett's name 

 is, however, the better of the two, since there are several 

 species of geese with short beaks, but only one other that 

 I am aware of that has pink legs and feet. 



This new species, for the first notice of which, in this 

 country, we are indebted to the discrimination of Mr. Bart- 

 lett, is considerably smaller in size than the Bean Goose last 

 described, but otherwise so like it in general appearance, that 

 there is little doubt it has frequently been mistaken for the 

 young bird of that species ; but on comparative examination 

 it is at once distinguished by the smaller and shorter beak, 

 and the pink colour of the legs and feet. Little is known 

 of the particular habits of this new species in a wild state, 

 but M. Temminck mentions that three specimens kept in a 

 domestic state with others of the Grey, the Bean, and White- 

 fronted species, did not associate with either of them, but 

 kept together by themselves. 



The same habit has been observed of this species in two 

 instances in this country. The Zoological Society have had 

 a male for several years which has never associated with any 

 of those of the various other species with which it has been 

 confined. The Ornithological Society has a female which, 

 during the summer of 1840, would not associate with any of 



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