1861. j MR. A. D. BARTLETT ON THE PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 19 



the whole Mascarene group, as Dr. Hartlaub, quotiug the authority 

 of M. Victor Sganzin (whose paper, by the by, in the * Memoires de 

 la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de Strasbourg,' I have not been able 

 to examine), states that it is common in Bourbon (Reunion) as well 

 as in Mauritius. 



I now proceed to designate the new species in proper form : — 



Gallinula pyrrhorrhoa, sp. nov. 



Fulica chloropus, Julien Desjardins, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 45. 



" Galiinula chloropus,\ . Sganzin, Mem. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Strasb. 

 1831-2, p. 45 ;" G. Hartlaub, Journ. fiir Oru. 1860, p. 173. 



GalUnule or Moor-hen, auct. anon, in ' Mauritius Register,' 1859, 

 p. Ixxxv. 



Galiinula (?), 'Ibis,' 1861, p. 116. 



Statura et aspectu Gallinulse chloropodi admodvm similis, sed 

 membrana frontali majore, caudce tectricibus inferioribus cer- 

 vinis, pedibusque Jlavis. 



Hab. In insulis Mascarenis, Mauritiana, Borbonica (teste Sganzin) 

 atque Madagascariensi (teste Bojer) ; diifert voce a G. chloropode. 



Mus. Vindobon., Joh. Gould necnon A. et E. Newton. 



5. Notice of the Occurrence of the Pink-footed Goose, 

 Anser PHfENicopus. By A. D. Bartlett. 



On the 8th of January 1839 I had the pleasure of introducing to 

 the notice of the Society's Meeting this species for the first time as 

 a new British bird ; and although since that period many examples 

 have been from time to time obtained, I am not aware that they have 

 appeared in such large numbers as they now appear. Since the 3rd of 

 this month upwards of a hundred specimens have been seen and 

 examined by me, most of them having been killed in the Eastern 

 Counties. The old males weigh about 6 lbs., the females 5 lbs., and 

 young birds 4| lbs. The length of the males is about 2 feet 6 inches, 

 the females 2 feet 3 inches, measuring from tip of bill to end of tail. 

 The length of the bill varies from 2\ inches to If in length. I 

 mention this, as too much importance has been attached to this cha- 

 racter (in the Geese), which has led Mr. A. Strickland to regard and 

 describe the old male Bean-Goose as a new and distinct species*. Of 

 this latter bird I here exhibit an old male whose bill is upwards of 

 2f inches long. I also exhibit a female Bean Goose, bill 2i inches 

 long ; this latter is an adult female, having been kept in the Gardens 

 of this Society nearly two years. 



* See Ann. and Mag. N. H. ser. 3, vol. hi. p. 121, where the old male Bean- 

 Goose {Anser segetnm) is described as a new species under the name of the 

 Long-billed Goose {Anser paludosus). 



