158 

 NATATORES. 



ANATIDJE. 



ANAT1DJE. 



THE PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 



Anser ph&nicopus, 

 brachyrhynchus, 



Anser brachyrhynchus. 



Pink-footed Goose, BAKTLETT, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, 



p. 3. 

 BAILLON, 



p. 124. 



Oie a bee court, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. pt. iv. 



p. 520. 



ON the 8th of January, 1839, at the first evening meet- 

 ing of the Zoological Society in that year, Mr. Bartlett 

 exhibited several species of Geese in order to illustrate a 

 paper which he communicated to the meeting on a new 

 British species of the genus Anser for which he proposed 

 the name of phcenicopus, on account of the pink colour of 

 the feet, with remarks on the nearly-allied species. 



On the 10th of September in the same year, a commu- 

 nication was received by the Zoological Society from M, 



