NATATORES. ANATIDÆ.
T H E P IN E -FO O T ED GOOSE.
Anser phoenicopus, Pink-footeA GooeeK B artxett; Proc. Zool. Soc.
brachyrhynchus, . B aillon, „ ,, ,, „ P* 124.
a bee court, Temm. Man. d’Omith. pt. iv. p. S20.
On the 8th of January, 1889, at the first evening meeting
of the Zoological Society in that year, . Mr. Bartlett exhibited
several species of Geese in order to illustrate a paper whinh
he communicated 'to the .meeting on a new British species
of the genus Anser,-for which he proposed the name of phos-
nicopus, on account of the pink colour of the feet, with remarks
on the nearly allied species.
On theTOtFof September, in the same year, a communication
was received by the Zoological Society from M.
Baillon, of Abbeville, stating that he had described in 1888,
in the Memoirs of the Society of Emulation of Abbeville, a
new species of goose, to which he had given the name of
brcCchyrhi/nchus, because it appeared to him that one of its
most, striking characters consisted in the shortness of its beak.
This bird proved If-b e of the same species as the one described
by Mr. Bartlett; but I believe I am correct in stating
that at the time Mr. Bartlett proposed his .name for this new
GoOjSe- in 1889y no one here was aware that M. Baillon had
described and named th e same speqies in the Memoirs of the
Society of Emulation of Abbeville, in 1888.> M. Baillons
name^bf-course, has the precedence, and will be adopted by
others, as it has been by M. Temminck ; Mr. Bartlett s name
is, however, the* better the two, since there are several
species of£geese-with short beaks, but only one other that
I am aware' of that has pink legs and feet.
This ‘newH^eeies','“ for the first notice of which, in this
country^ we are indebted to the' discrimination of Mr. Bartlett,
is considerably smaller in J size than the Bean Goose last
.described, but otherwisef$>,dike it in general appearance, that
there is little doubt it has frequently been mistaken for the
young bird of that species; but on comparative-examination
it is- at once distinguished by the smaller and shorter beak,
and the- pink colour of the1 legs and feet. Little is known
of t f c particular habits of this new species in a wild state,
blit M. Temminck mentions that three specimens kept in a
domestic state-with others ofthe Grey, the Bean, and White-
fronted species, did not associate1 with either of them, but
kept together by themselves.*
The same habit has been observed of this species in two
instancesMn this country.* The Zoological Society have had
a male for several years which has never associated with any
of those of the various other species with which it has been
confined. The Ornithological Society has a female which,
during the summer of 1840, would not-associate with any of
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