44 BIRDS OF ICELAND 



-j- [Anser segetum (Gmel.). Bean Goose. 



The ouly record of this species is to be found in the 

 statement of the late William Proctor (see lUs, 1864, 

 p. 132) that he had received the bird from Iceland. 

 The Bean Goose is an Arctic-breeding species (unlike 

 the Grey Lag) and does not extend its range to Green- 

 land or Spitzbergen, but rather to north-east Europe. I 

 do not mean to assert the impossibility of its occurrence 

 there, seeing that the Grey Plover (Squatarola hel- 

 vetica), which has pretty much the same breeding 

 range, has more than once occurred as a rare straggler ; 

 but I look upon the statement with some doubt, and 

 certainly refuse to admit its claim to be considered 

 a breeding species in Iceland.] 



^ Anser brachyrhynchus, Baillon. 

 Pink-footed Goose. 



Native name : 'GraGfaes.' 



Professor Newton (Baring Gould, App. p. 414) sur- 

 mised that this species might be found to breed in 

 Iceland. It does so in Spitzbergen, and may therefore 

 be reasonably supposed to do so in Iceland, which 

 would not be much out of its route. The same gentle- 

 man subsequently states that he saw a specimen in 

 the Durham Museum, with eggs which had been sent 

 with it from Iceland to the late William Proctor {Ihis, 

 1864, p. 132). I have additional reason for supposing 

 it to breed in Iceland, where, however, it must be 



