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

 nostrils to the base black, the intermediate space pink ; 

 the irides dark brown ; head and neck dark ash-brown, 

 the colour becoming lighter towards the lower part of the 

 neck ; back, wing-coverts and tertials, brownish-grey, 

 edged and tipped with dull white ; primary quill-feathers 

 lead-grey, with white shafts ; the secondaries still darker, 

 almost bluish-black ; rump greyish ash colour ; upper tail- 

 coverts white; tail-feathers grey, edged and tipped with 

 white ; neck in front, breast, and belly, pale ash-brown, 

 with lighter coloured edges ; sides, flanks, and thighs, 

 grey, broadly tipped with pale brown ; vent, under tail- 

 coverts, and under surface of the tail-feathers white ; legs, 

 toes, and membranes pink, tinged with vermilion, in colour 

 like those of the Egyptian Goose ; the claws black ; the 

 hind toe short ; the membranes of the feet thick and 

 fleshy, 



The whole length of an adult male twenty-eight inches. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the second quill-feather, 

 which is rather the longest in the wing, seventeen inches 

 and a half; the carpal joint of the wing furnished with 

 the usual hard knob ; the wings when closed reach an inch 

 or more beyond the end of the tail. 



In the recently published September number of the 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, it is stated in a 

 paper on the Zoology of the outer Hebrides by Mr. J. 

 Macgillivray, " that the Pink-footed or Short-billed Goose 

 breeds in great numbers in the small islands of the Sound 

 of Harris, as well as those of the interior of North Uist. 

 This bird was seen in flocks so late as the beginning of 

 May, was observed in pairs among the islands in the Sound 

 about the middle of the month, and had the young fully 

 fledged and strong upon the wing about the end of July." 



