156 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 
ANSER BRACHYRHYNCHUS, Baillon. 
Judging by the number of birds which have been 
identified, the Pink-footed Goose appears to be com- 
moner ‘than the Bean Goose in the estuary of the 
Dee. There is a female in the Grosvenor Museum, 
which was obtained inland at Tattenhall on December 
29th, 1890. 
Dr. Dobie examined some that were killed out of a 
flock on the marsh opposite Burton Point in the winter 
of 1892-93, one of which is now in the Grosvenor 
Museum, Chester. Again, in the winter of 1893-94, he 
saw two others, which had been obtained in the same 
locality, exposed for sale in Chester1 Mr. R. Newstead 
tells us that from two to three hundred birds fre- 
quented the Dee Marshes and adjacent lands in the 
hard winter of 1894-95, but only a few were obtained. 
He examined one which had been shot on a stubble 
field where the flock was feeding. 
On December 26th, 1898, we saw a ‘gaggle’ of Grey 
Geese, numbering from four to five hundred birds, on 
the Dee Marshes between Burton and Denhall. They 
were far too wary to allow us to approach near enough 
to identify them, but they were almost certainly refer- 
able to this species. When we first saw them, the 
birds were feeding in the receding tide on the grass 
growing in patches below high-water mark; but as 
we approached, they rose, ‘clonking’ loudly, and flew 
down the estuary to a sandbank, on which they 
alighted. 
1 Dobie, op. cit. p. 320. 
