60 EESIDENTS AND MIGRANTS. 



to confirm this statement. In Ireland it is a regular 

 winter visitant. 



PINK-POOTED GOOSE. Jnser hrachyrhynchus, Baillon. 



A winter visitant. Said to have been found breed- 

 ing by Macgillivray on the islands in the Sound of 

 Harris, and on the lakes of North Uist ; but subse- 

 quent observation showed that he had mistaken the 

 Grey Lag Goose for this species. Mr. Robert Gray 

 says the Pink-footed Goose is only found in the 

 winter months in any part of Scotland ; and, with the 

 exception of the western islands, no locality can 

 boast of it in any numbers. 



According to Mr. Thompson, " it cannot yet be 

 announced as obtained in Ireland, though particularly 

 looked for of late years." 



"WHITE-FEONTED GOOSE. Anser albifrons (Gmelin). 



A winter visitant to England, Scotland, and Ireland, 

 but somewhat local in its distribution. 



It has been clearly shown by Professor Newton, in 

 a paper read before the Zoological Society in June 

 I860*, that Linnseus applied the specific name 

 '■'■ erythropus" to the smaller race of White-fronted 

 Goose, known as Anser minutus of Naumann, and 

 Anser temminckii of Boie, which inhabits Lapland, 

 and which does not visit Great Britain. The larger 

 White-fronted Goose, which visits the British Islands 



* P. Z. S. 1860, p. 339 ; reprinted in 'The Ibis,' 1860, p. 404. 



