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EARLY NOTICE OF THE PINK-FOOTED GOOSE 
IN YORKSHIRE. 
Rev. H, A. MACPHERSON, M.A., M.B.O.U., Etc 
Author of ‘ An Introduction to the Study of British Birds, etc. 
Reavers of ‘ The Naturalist’ will remember that the Pink-footed 
Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) was first recorded as a British species 
by Mr. Bartlett in 1839. It may interest them, therefore, to learn 
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Yorkshire in the seventeenth century, though there is apparently 
a confusion in the text between two species. It will be seen that 
Ray himself draws attention to the discrepancy in the colour of the 
bill and feet, showing that he was fully alive to it. 
Ray describes the Grey-lagg Goose :—‘ Rostrum 4 capite ad 
mediam fere partem nigrum, deinde subpurpureum, ipso etiam apice 
nigro. Pedes subpurpurei sive carnei coloris.’ 
He continues :—‘ In paludibus agri Eboracensis nidificant: ipsi 
& eorum Pulli Mense Maio pinguescunt & in deliciis habentur. 
Hactenus D. Zzster, qui tamen hanc speciem ab Ansere fero vulgari 
nobis descripto diversam esse non sidentur affirmat, quoniam 
descriptiones in omnibus fere, excepto Rostri & pedum colore, 
conveniunt.’ 
I extract this from my note-book, not having now the original to 
consult, but the reference giyen is Syn. Meth. Av., p. 138, and 
I think the work was published after Ray’s death, in 1713. It 
seems quite clear that Dr. Lister had described to Ray a true 
Pink-footed Goose, obtained in Yorkshire. But the species which 
bred in Yorkshire was, of course, the Grey-lag Goose. 
NOTES” AND NEWS. 
We regret to announce the death of a noted North of England geen: 
Mr. Daniel Mackintosh, F.G.S., which octet at Chester on the 19th ultimo 
e Lect ei on Botany at the Liverpoo! gba College (Mr. R. J. Harvey 
Giteon, M edhey Elan Fs R.S.E.), has a pap n the Journal of Bota ny for May 
1891 (p. 120), illustrated by a plate, on the histology of Polpiphonia fastigiata. 
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rvey Gibson also has a paper in the _Journal of the Linnean Society 
(Botany No. 193, May 1891) ont f the sporangia in Rhkodochorton 
vothit and R, floridulum, and inte a new species belonging to that genus. 
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of the ceremonies in the Senate House at Cambridge on June 16t 
the immallation of the Rt. Hon. Lord Walsin ingham as Hi gh Steward of the 
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Univ Subsequently, the degree of Doctor i w was conferred upon t 
wre Bs ect ficer 4 ausé. Lord Walsingham is an ex-Presid e of 
he orkshire Naturalists’ Union, and is well known, not only as a popular | and- 
rd erg crack shot,’ but as a distinguished entomologist and Fellow of the 
Royal Societ 
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Naturalist, 
