70 PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 



looked by our British Ornithologists, and appeared 

 in no complete work as distinct, until the publi- 

 cation of the commencement of Mr. Yarrell's third 

 volume. It was first noticed as new to Britain by 

 Mr. Bartlet, who exhibited specimens to the Zoolo- 

 gical Society in 1839, and pointed out the distinctions 

 which existed between it and the two previously 

 described species. The same bird, however, seems to 

 have been (unknown to Mr. Bartlet,) noticed and 

 described several years previously by the discrimi- 

 nating naturalist of Abbeville, M. Baillon, under the 

 name of " A. brachyrhynchus, or Short-billed Goose ;" 

 and since the time that it has been thus brought into 

 notice, it turns out that it is occasionally brought to 

 the Edinburgh market in winter,* and Mr. J. 

 M'Gillivray, in his paper on the Zoology of the 

 Outer Hebrides, states that " they breed in great 

 numbers in the small islands of the Sound of Har- 

 ris, as well as those of the interior of North Uist." t 

 Mr. Yarrell mentions some birds killed in the Eng- 

 lish counties, and that specimens were frequent 

 in the London markets during the last three win- 

 ters. There is yet no notice of it from Ireland. 

 We have also scarcely any information regarding 

 its continental, or its extra-European range. Living 

 specimens have been already kept by the London 

 Zoological and Ornithological Societies, but have 

 not yet bred there. 



During the winter of 1841-42, one of consider- 

 able severity, comparatively few wild geese ap- 



* Proceed, of Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1840. 

 + Annals of Nat. Hist, &c. viii. p. 13. 



