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of the various species kept with her in St. James's Park, 

 yet she laid eight eggs, and began to sit, but from which 

 of course there were no proceeds. The eggs were rather 

 less than those of the Bean Goose, of a pure white colour, 

 and measuring three inches and one-eighth in length, by 

 two inches and a quarter in breadth. 



The Zoological Society allowed their male to be trans- 

 ferred to St. James's Park, and young birds were pro- 

 duced. 



The voice of the Pink-footed Goose differs from that of 

 the Bean Goose in being sharper in tone, and the note is 

 also repeated more rapidly. These Geese were not uncom- 

 mon in the London market during the winters of 1838, 39, 

 and 40. 



In January of the year 1841, I was favoured with a 

 letter from the Hon. and Rev. Thomas Keppel, of War- 

 ham Rectory, near Holkam, informing me that a Pink- 

 footed Goose had been killed by his nephew, Lord Coke, 

 at Holkam. This bird was shot out of a flock of about 

 twenty, but nothing particular was observed in their flight 

 or habits. Mr. Wm. Thompson, of Weymouth, has 

 noticed the occurrence of this species in Dorsetshire. 



There is little or no doubt that this species will be 

 found breeding in some of the localities frequented by the 

 Bean Goose. At a meeting of the Wernerian Natural 

 History Society, held in Edinburgh on the 28th November, 

 1840, Dr. Neill, the secretary, read a communication from 

 Mr. Macgillivray, stating that the Pink-footed, or Short- 

 billed Goose, Anser brachyrhynchus, occurs occasionally on 

 the stalls of the poultry market there. Edin. New. Phil. 

 Journ. No. 59, p. 213. 



The bill is but one inch and five-eighths in length, con- 

 siderably shorter than the head, narrow, and much con- 

 tracted towards the tip ; the nail, and the space from the 



