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1833, in the Memoirs of the Society of Emulation of 

 Abbeville, a new species of Goose, to which he had given 

 the name of ImcJiyrynchus, because it appeared to him 

 that one of its most striking characters consisted in the 

 shortness of its beak. This bird proved to be of the same 

 species as the one described by Mr. Bartlett ; but I believe 

 I am correct in stating that at the time Mr. Bartlett pro- 

 posed his name for this new Goose in 1839, no one here 

 was aware that M. Baillon had described and named the 

 same species in the Memoirs of the Society of Emulation 

 of Abbeville, in 1833. M. Baillon's name, of course, has 

 the precedence, and will be adopted by others, as it has 

 been by M. Temminck. 



This new species, for the first notice of which, in this 

 country, we are indebted to the discrimination of Mr. 

 Bartlett, is considerably smaller in size than the Bean 

 Goose last described, but otherwise so like it in general 

 appearance, that there is little doubt it has frequently been 

 mistaken for the young bird of that species ; but on com- 

 parative examination it is at once distinguished by the 

 smaller and shorter beak, and the pink colour of the legs 

 and feet. Little is known of the particular habits of this 

 new species in a wild state, but M. Temminck mentions 

 that three specimens kept in a domestic state with others 

 of the Grey, the Bean, and White-fronted species, did not 

 associate with either of them, but kept together by them- 

 selves. 



The same habit has been observed of this species in two 

 instances in this country. The Zoological Society have 

 had a male for several years which has never associated 

 with any of those of the various other species with which 

 it has been confined. The Ornithological Society has a 

 female which, during the summer of 1840, would not 



