57 o GREY LAG GOOSE. Class II. 



:66. Grey Grey Lag, the Fen-Goofe of Raiifyn. a-v. 136. 



Lag. Lifter. Ph. Tronf. abr. II. Gofs (the tame). Scopoli, No. 



852. 69. 



Descrip. rTT^HIS is our largeft fpecies ; the heavieft 

 JL weigh ten pounds : the length is two feet 

 nine; the extent five feet. 



The bill is large and elevated ; of a flefh cotor, 

 tinged with yellow: the nail white: the head and 

 neck cinereous, mixed with ochraceous yellow : the 

 the hind part of the neck very pale; and at the 

 bafe of a yellowim brown. 



Breaft and belly whitifh, clouded with grey or 

 afh color : back grey : leffer coverts of the wings 

 almoft white ; the middle row, deep cinereous 

 flightly edged with white : the primaries grey, 

 tipt with black, and edged with white : fecondaries 

 entirely black j grey only at their bafe: the fcapu- 

 iars of a deep afh color, edged with white. 



The coverts of the tail, and the vent feathers of 

 a pure white : the middle feathers of the tail duf- 

 ky, tipt with white; the exterior feathers almoft 

 wholly white. The legs of a fjefh color. 

 History. This fpecies refides in the fens the whole year: 

 breeds there, and hatches about eight or nine 

 young which are often taken, eafily made tame, 

 and eiteemed moll excellent meat, fuperior to the 



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