day by sportsmen lying up for them behind gate-posts in the
t = et ek aeir In 1858 he saw a flock of fifty at South Creake
oe id to have been seen that year on the Ist of the month. In the
no doubt all pink-footed, frequented some barley
house at Dunton, near Fakenham. They used to arrive from . “ae va
10use é ees j is species he considers
ain till late in the afternoon. The chestnut-brown of the head and neck in ee : ae
light, and remain : e ere ce aitance Whe pink-footed, like the bean-goose, also frequen ge
a distinguishable feature at ¢ : j deahet qierustieriniind «eran country about Wretham Haan

as many as twenty-seven sho

has known :
hes during a gale of wind,

Holkham mars a
as the 13th of October ; and some were sa

as early eee ae
1ock of about five hundred geese, W hich we

winter of 1869, a f
stubbles within sight of his

upland fields about Anmer and Westacre, | a —
cillivray the Pink-footed Goose 1s not very MOCO He 7 - a o e
being frequently seen in the Edinburgh market. The zyeoinen from which i pe : ‘csi
in Baveniher but the bird is more frequently obtained in February and te "e Va me
Museum at Montrose were shot in the neighbourhood of lat town; and he hac eo ae .
the Aberdeen market. Mr. John Macgillivray has stated, in the ‘ ee and Me 4 h ; "i ae
vol. viii. p. 13, that ‘the Pink-footed or Short-billed Coo breeds mn great nim bems in Me | Is a ;
the Sound of Harris, as well as those of the interior of North Uist ;” but aks wee a ( a me
founded in error, since Capt. Elwes says, in ‘The Ibis’ for 1869, p. 22, I Haul there can be little dou nt t _
the only Goose that breeds in any part of Scotland is the Grey Lag (Anser ferus) ; and Ue best evidence in
favour of this view is that of Mr. J. Macdonald, of Scolpig, who has resided all his life on the Outer

According to the elder Mac

Hebrides, where it is a common custom to rear Geese from eggs that have been laid by wild binds’ ie
assures me that none of these eggs have ever produced any but Grey Lags with the nail of the i white.

Mr. Thomas Jamieson informed Macgillivray that he had observed the Pink-footed Goose in the Isle of
Skye in 1850; and St. John states that it regularly visits Morayshire at the same time as the Bean-Goose.

“ The Short-billed or Pink-footed Goose,” says Thompson, ‘* though not uncommon in England or Scot-
land, cannot yet be announced as obtained in Ireland, though particularly looked for of late years.”

I have alluded to the high northern localities visited by this bird in summer, in confirmation of which I
may mention that we have the authority of Mr. Newton for stating that Mr. Proctor, of the Durham Uni-
Lavalty Museum, has once or twice received specimens from Iceland; and Mr. Newton himself says that, ‘ in
Spitzbergen the Pink-footed Goose has been met with in Wide Bay, lat. 79° 35’ N., and probably occurs all
along the west coast. It is most numerous in Ice Sound, where a hatched-out nest with two goslings was
found about midnight between the 16th and 17th of July. Dr. Malmgren seems to have met with at least
two nests in the upper part of the Sound, from both of which he shot the female bird. The second was
obtained at Mittelhook, in the same Sound, on the 10th of July. According to Dr. Malmgren, the species
also occurs in Hinlopen Strait and Stor Fjord.” In a review of Herr Robert Collett’s ‘ List of the Birds of
Norway’ in ‘ The Ibis’ for 1869, it is stated that “ the Anser brachyrhynchus has at last been recognized as
breeding in the north of Norway.” ;

Temminck states that this species has been several times killed in France, where it occasionally appears as
a migrant, as it probably does in several other countries of Europe, but has there been confounded with 2.
segetum, from which it differs but little. It had only been observed during the severe winters of 1829,

1830, and 1838, and always in very small numbers, which kept together and did not mingle with the flocks

of common geese; a peculiarity which the bird also evinces in captivity, since M. de Lamotte, of Abbeville,

kept three individuals in an enclosure in company with 4. ferus, A. segetum, and A. albifrons ; but they always
ed no disposition to ally themselves with either of them ; anda male in the Gardens
ty in the Regent’s Park, and a female on the ornamental water in St. James’s Park,

would not associate with any of the various species with which they were surrounded.
Meyer says :—** Towards the spring these

remained apart and evine

of the Zoological Socie

geese become restless, flying to meadows, waste lands, and heathy
commons, and finally leave their winte 7

performed usually in the day ;

or fifty miles an hour.

r-quarters for more northern regions. Their migratory journeys are
and the speed at which they sometime
The numbers that Journey together
large flocks, they form a triangul

s fly has been noticed to amount to forty
vary from five to fifty or sixty; and when in
ar figure, headed by the father
aid by this goose has not bee
logical Society, and kept on the

8 of the foremost family.”
Phe number of eggs |

n ascertained. The female belonging to the Ornitho-
ornamental water in St. James’s Park

, deposited eight, which, Mr. Yarrell
those of a Bean-Goose, of

says, were rather less than é 1 1
a pure white, and measured 3% inches in length by

aa :
2¢ inches in breadth.
Im ‘conclude my ; 1
nust not conclude my account of the Pink-footed Goose without re

and Fitzhardinge for the assistance they have
which mny figures were taken, nor to Mr
in Ice Sound

cording my obligations to Earls Ducie
forwarding the fine examples from
sight of a pair of goslings obtained by him

kindly rendered me by
Alfred Newton for the
, on the western side of Spitzbe

Sp rgen,
ie hgures are ; r perhaps a Ji
e about, o1 perhaps a little more than, half the natural size