﻿12 ANATID.E. 



NA TA TORES. A NA TIDJE. 



PLATE CCXXVIII. 



PINK-LEGGED BEAN GOOSE. 



ANSER SEGETUM. 



In June 1840 we gave a representation of this species in 

 our quarto work on British Birds, drawn on the 29th of May 

 of that year, from a specimen then living in the Zoological 

 Gardens, Regents Park, where it was kept with some indi- 

 viduals of the orange-legged species, and of which it was sup- 

 posed to be only an accidental variety. Subsequent research, 

 however, convinced us that the points of difference between 

 this and the more common orange-legged bird, were too great 

 to belong only to a variety, and at last we ascertained that 

 this species had long since obtained a separate place in the 

 ornithological lists of our continental neighbours, and that 

 the species had been duly acknowledged as distinct. How this 

 species remained so long confused with its congeners in this 

 country is remarkable, since it has not only been met with in 

 many parts of England in winter, but is known to breed in 

 great numbers among the Western Islands of Scotland. 



Although first recognised as a distinct species abroad, it 

 appears that the Pink-legged Goose is chiefly known as a 

 winter visitant in the civilised parts of the continent of 

 Europe. According to M. Temminck, it was first observed 



