PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 
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looked by our British Ornithologists, and appeared 
in no complete work as distinct, until the publi- 
cation of the commencement of Mr. Yarrell’s third 
volume. It was first noticed as new to Britain by 
Mr. Bartlet, who exhibited specimens to the Zoolo- 
gical Society in 1839, and pointed out the distinctions 
which existed between it and the two previously 
described species. The same bird, however, seems to 
have been (unknown to Mr. Bartlet,) noticed and 
described several years previously by the discrimi- 
nating naturalist of Abbeville, M. Baillon, under the 
name of “A. Irackyrhynch us, or Short-billed Goose;” 
and since the time that it has been thus brought into 
notice, it turns out that it is occasionally brought to 
the Edinburgh market in winter,* and Mr. J. 
M‘Gillivray, in his paper on the Zoology of the 
Outer Hebrides, states that “ they breed in great 
numbers in the small islands of the Sound of Har- 
ris, as well as those of the interior of North Uist.” t 
Mr. Yarrell mentions some birds killed in the Eng- 
lish counties, and that specimens were frequent 
in the London markets during tho last three win- 
ters. There is yet no notice of it from Ireland. 
We have also scarcely any information regarding 
its continental, or its extra-European range. Living 
specimens have been already kept by the London 
Zoological and Ornithological Societies, but have 
not yet bred there. 
During the winter of 1841-42, one of consider- 
able severity, comparatively few wild geese ap- 
* Proceed. ofWem. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1840. 
+ Annals of Nat. Hist, &o. viii. p. 13. 
