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associate with any 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. 



This season the Zoological Society have allowed their 

 male to be transferred to St. James's Park ; but though 

 the pair were soon good friends, there is as yet no produce. 

 Young birds have been produced since. 



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 present year, 1841, I was favoured 

 with a letter from the Hon. and Rev. Thomas Keppel, of 

 Warham 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. 



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 IrachyrhynchuS) 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, consi- 

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



