ANATIDA. 403 
THE PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 
ANSER BRACHYRHYNCHUS, Baillon. 
The late Mr. A. D. Bartlett was the first to call the attention of 
British ornithologists to the distinguishing marks of this species, in a 
paper read before the Zoological Society of London on January 8th 
1839 ; although the name which he then proposed had to give way 
to one conferred in 1833 by Baillon of Abbeville. Subsequent 
observation has shown that the Pink-footed far exceeds the Bean- 
Goose in abundance on the east coast of England from the end 
of September onward through the colder months; for instance, 
nearly all the large flocks of ‘Grey’ Geese which frequent the 
marshes and uplands of Holkham and Burnham in Norfolk are of 
this species, while similar testimony is given respecting the Humber 
district by Messrs. Cordeaux, H. Sharp and F. Boyes, the eastern 
part of Yorkshire by the late A. Strickland and Mr. W. Eagle 
Clarke, and Northumberland by Mr. Abel Chapman. On the west 
side its predominance is less decided, while in the south its 
occurrences are not so frequently noticed. It is found in winter 
on the east coast of Scotland; as also on the west, and sparingly 
in the Outer Hebrides, but it is rare in the Orkneys, and not yet 
recognized in the Shetlands. In Ireland it was obtained and 
identified for the first time near Belfast, on October 21st 1891. 
The Pink-footed Goose breeds in the north of Iceland, and is the 
‘aoe’ 
