PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 



Anser bracliyrhynchus, BAILLOV. 



" phten.copus, B Alii LETT. 



A user A Goose. Braekyrkynekiu. Brachiis Short. 



RftyjichusA bill. 



I>* the year 1833, M. Baillon, the eminent naturalist .of 

 Abbeville, described the present as a new species, under the 

 name which he then assigned to it. It appears, however, 

 according to the statement of Meyer, that M. Temminck has 

 asserted that it had been previously observed in Holland, in 

 the winters of 1829 and 1830, as also subsequently in 1838. 

 Mr. Bartlett was the first to notice it in this country, and 

 unaware that it had been before discovered, as noticed 

 above, gave as its specific name that which has hence become 

 a synonym. 



These Geese occur in Europe, Asia, and America, and in 

 cold weather some cross over to the northern parts of Africa. 

 In the first-named continent they have been observed in France, 

 Italy, Hungary, and Turkey, and frequent, for the purpose 

 of breeding, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the 

 Hebrides. 



In Yorkshire they occur on Thorne Moor. One was shot 

 on the coast in the winter of 1851, as Mr. William Felkin, 

 Junior, of Carrington, near Nottingham, has informed me; one 

 also at Haxby, near York, on the 15th. of January, 1850. 

 My servant found one, which had been barely winged, in a 

 field near Warter, in the East-Riding, on the 9th. of December, 

 1851. Three were sold in the Doncaster market in 1840. In 

 Northamptonshire it is an occasional visitor, as the Hon. T. 

 L. Powys has written to me. In Norfolk these birds occurred 

 several 'times near Lynn, in the beginning of 1854; as they 

 had also done in the winter of 1849-50. Two in December, 



