THE PINK-FOOTED GOOSE 



Melanonyx brachyrhynchus, Baillon 



Plate 8 



English — Pink-footed Goose ; Grey Goose ; Blacknebs (Scotland) ; Pink-footed Bean-Goose 



(Cordeaux). 

 Russian — Korotkoklyuvy gus ; korotkoklyuvy and korotkonosy gumennik (book names). 

 German — Ktirzschnabelige Gans ; Rosenfussige Gans. 

 French — Oie a bee court. 

 Danish — De Kleine Rietgans. 

 S wed i sh — Spetzbergens-Sadgas. 



Anser brachyrhynchus, Baillon, Mem. Soc. R. d'Abbev., 1833, p. 74 ; Dresser, Birds of Europi, vi. p. 369, pi. 413 

 (1878); Degl. and Gerbe, Orn. Eur., 2, p. 482 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvii. p. 103 (1895) ; 

 Menzbier, Pt. Ross., i. p. 746 (1895) ; ^, Okhotn. i Prom. Pt. Ross, i Kavk., p. 476, pi. 136 ; Buturlin, 

 Tabl. opredel. plastinchatokl., Tula, 1900 (" Psov. i Ruzh. Okh.") ; id., Po severu Rossii (Zhitkov i Buturlin), 

 1901, p. 84; Palmen, Cab. Journ. f. Orn., xxiv. p. 53 (1876); Buturlin, Sinopt. tabl. Okh. Pt. Ros. 

 Imp., p. 43.(1901). 

 ? MiddendorfT, R. Sib., p. 227 (St. Petersburg !). 

 ? Menzbier, Ptitsy Rossii, i. p. 746 (1895) — (Russia). 



Id., Okhotn. i Promysl. Pt. R. i K., ii. p. 476, pi. 136 — (Russia). 

 ? Hume and Marshall, Game Birds of India, iii. p. 71, with pi. (1880). 



? Pleske, Vog. Kola Hlbns. ; id., Kritichesk. Obz. mlek. i ptits Kolsk. pol-va, 1887, pp. 341-342. 

 ? Semenov, "Priroda i Okhota," 1898, vii. p. 13 (Ryazan gov.) (notes). 

 ? Somov, Orn. F. Khark. g., p. 445 (1895). 

 ? Deryugin, Orn. izsl. Psk. g., separat, p. 27 (nomen nudum). 

 ? Kholodkovsky i Silantiev, Pt. Yevr., p. 523 — (Russia). 

 ? Anser brachyrhynchus, Semenov, " Prir. i Okh.," 1898, vii. p. 13. 

 Anser brevirostris, Thienem., Fortpfl. d. Vog. Eur., pt. 5, p. 28 (1838). 

 Anser segetum, Strickland, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, iii. p. 122, pi. iv., figs. 2 and 3 (1859). 

 Anser phcenicopus, Bartlett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1839, p. 3. 

 Anser segetum, var. brachyrhynchus, Bonaparte, Compt-Rend., xliii. p. 648 (1886). 

 Anser ferus, Evans and Sturge, Ibis, 1859 — (Spitzbergen). 

 Anser cinereus, Thorell, Philos. Mag. Med. Kand., p. 61 (1859). 



Anser segetum, var. brachyrhynchus, Malmgren, Oef. K. Vet. Ak. Forh., p. 189 (1863). 



Melanonyx brachyrhynchus, Buturlin, Dikie Gusi R. I. (" Psov. i Ruzh. Okh.," 1901) ; id., separat., p. 26 el seq. 

 ? Anser rufescens, Palmen {nee Brehm), Finl. Fogl., ii. p. 339 (1872) {neglectus, Sushkin ?). 



Adult Male 



Whole head and neck brown with chocolate or coffee tinge, and often with a small 

 number of white plumules at base of bill. Upper part of back, between scapula, brown with 

 rufous tinge. Lower part of back and scapulars light brown, the feathers becoming towards 



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