BEAN GOOSE.— PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 331 



which pass oyer in stormy weather, the Bean Goose is 

 probably strongly represented^ but it is only a well-accus- 

 tomed eye that can distiaguish of which species the flocks 

 consist. When flying, they generally range themselves in 

 lines, and the noise they make somewhat resembles that of a 

 pack of foxhounds in full cry, and may be heard at a long 

 distance. They breed in Lapland as soon as the ice is 

 broken up. 



Mr. Knox only says this bird is not unusual in hard 

 weather. Mr. WoUey, writing from Lapland, says that it 

 goes to the most retired districts to breed, and spends the 

 summer in marshes and moors towards the mountains, where 

 men are very scarce (Hewitson, vol. ii. p. 385, ed. 3). 



PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 



Anser Irachyrhynchus. 



This species is either a very rare bird, or it has not yet been 

 sufficiently distinguished from its congeners j in fact, it was 

 not discovered to be a distinct species till 1833. I have not 

 myself met with it in Sussex. 



Mr. Dresser, in ' Birds of Europe,' vol. vi. p. 374, thus 

 speaks of it : — " In its habits, the Pink-footed Goose is said 

 to difiier but little from the Grey-lag Goose, which, indeed, it 

 more resembles in plumage than does the Bean Goose. Of 

 its breediQg habits, comparatively little is known. It is said 

 to breed in Spitzbergen. Professor Malmgren, who obtained 

 its eggs in the latter island, says that it is extremely shy and 

 wary. In the early summer, it is to be seen in small flocks 

 on moss-covered lowlands near the sea, where there is vege- 

 tation here and there, but in the ordinary breeding season it 

 is seen in pairs. When moulting, it frequents freshwater 



