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PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 
Anser brachyrhynchus, BaAILuLon. 
“  phenicopus, BaRTLetr. 
Anser—A Goose. Brachyrhynchus. Brachiis—Short. 
Rhynchos—A Dill. 
In the year 1833, M. Baillon, the eminent naturalist of 
Abbeville, described the present as a new species, under the 
name which he then assigned to it. It appears, however, 
according to the statement of Meyer, that M. Temminck has 
asserted that it had been previously observed in Holland, in 
the winters of 1829 and 18380, as also subsequently in 1888. 
Mr. Bartlett was the first to notice it in this country, and 
unaware that it had been before discovered, as noticed 
above, gave as its specific name that which has hence become 
a synonym. 
These Geese occur in Hurope, Asia, and America, and in 
cold weather some cross over to the northern parts of Africa. 
In the first-named continent they have been observed in France, 
Italy, Hungary, and Turkey, and frequent, for the purpose 
of breeding, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the 
Hebrides. 
In Yorkshire they occur on Thorne Moor. One was shot 
on the coast in the winter of 1851, as Mr. William Felkin, 
Junior, of Carrington, near Nottingham, has informed me; one 
also at Haxby, near York, on the 15th. of January, 1850. 
My servant found one, which had been barely winged, in a 
field near Warter, in the East-Riding, on the 9th. of December, 
1854. Three were sold in the Doncaster market in 1840. In 
Northamptonshire it is an occasional visitor, as the Hon. ‘T. 
L. Powys has written to me. In Norfolk these birds occurred 
several times near Lynn, in the beginning of 1854; as they 
had also done in the winter of 1849-50. ‘T'wo in December, 
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