The neutron-star X-ray transient ( catalog XTE J1701-462 ) was observed for \sim 3 Ms with RXTE during its 2006-2007 outburst .
Here we report on the discovery of three type-I X-ray bursts from ( catalog XTE J1701-462 ) .
They occurred as the source was in transition from the typical Z-source behavior to the typical atoll-source behavior , at \sim 10 \% of the Eddington luminosity .
The first burst was detected in the Z-source flaring branch ; the second in the vertex between the flaring and normal branches ; and the third in the atoll-source soft state .
The detection of the burst in the flaring branch cast doubts on earlier speculations that the flaring branch is due to unstable nuclear burning of accreted matter .
The last two of the three bursts show photospheric radius expansion , from which we estimate the distance to the source to be 8.8 kpc with a 15 \% uncertainty .
No significant burst oscillations in the range 30 to 4000 Hz were found during these three bursts .