66 ANATID.E. 



the various species kept willi licr in St. James's Park, yet she 

 laid eight eggs, and began to sit, but from which of course 

 there were no proceeds. The eggs were rather less than 

 those of the Bean Goose, of a pure white colour, and measur- 

 ing three inches and one eighth in length, by two inches and 

 a quarter in breadth. 



This season the Zoological Society have allowed their male 

 to be transferred to St. James*'s Park ; but though the pair 

 were soon good friends, there is as yet no produce. 



The voice of the Pink-footed Goose differs from that of 

 the Bean Goose in being sharper in tone, and the note is 

 also repeated more rapidly. These geese were not uncommon 

 in the London market during the winters of 1838, 39, 

 and 40. 



In January of the present year, 18-tl, I was favoured with 

 a letter from the Hon. and Rev. Thomas Keppel, of War- 

 ham Rectory, near Holkam, informing me that a Pink-footed 

 Goose had been killed by his nephew, Lord Coke, at Holkam. 

 This bird was shot out of a flock of about twenty, but no- 

 thing particular was observed in their flight or habits. 



There is little or no doubt that this species will be found 

 breeding in some of the localities frequented by the Bean 

 Goose. At a meeting of the Wernerian Natural History 

 Society, held in Edinburgh on the 28th November 1840, 

 Dr. Neill, the secretary, read a communication from Mr. 

 Macgillivray, stating that the Pink-footed, or Short-billed 

 Goose, Anser brachi/rhi/nchus, occurs occasionally on the 

 stalls of the poultry market there. — Edin. New. Phil. Journ. 

 No. 59, p. 213. 



The bill is but one inch and five-eighths in length, consi- 

 derably shorter than the head, narrow, and much contracted 

 towards the tip ; the nail, and the space from the nostrils to 

 the base black, the intermediate space pink ; the irides dark 

 brown ; head and neck dark ash-brown, the colour becoming 



