PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 



NATATORES. 



153 

 ANATIDJE. 



THE PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 



Anser Irachyrhynclius. 



Anser plioenicopus., Pink-footed Goose, BARTLETT, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 3. 

 brachyrliynchus, 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 ex- 

 hibited 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 plioenicopus^ 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 communi- 

 cation was received by the Zoological Society from M. 

 Baillon, of Abbeville, stating that he had described in 



