57 6 WHITE FRONTED GOOSE. Class II. 



and is called there the bean goofe, from the likenefs 

 of the nail of the bill to a horfe bean. They always 

 light on corn fields, and feed much on the green 

 wheat. 



They never breed in the fens ^ but all difappear 

 in May, They retreat to the fequeftred wilds of the 

 north of Europe: in their migration they fly a great 

 height, cackling as they go. They preferve a great 

 regularity in their motions, fometimes forming a 

 firait line, at others a fill me the fhape of a wedge, 

 which facilitates their progrefs -, for they cut the 

 air the readier in that form than if they flew pell- 

 rnell. 



268. White The laughing Goofe. Edvo. Briffon an. VI. 269. 



Fronted. aqj% , J3< Polnifche Ganfs. Kram. 339. 



Anas erythropus ffam.J: Danis Vild Gaas. Brunnich, 



Lin fyji. 197. 53. 



Fiadlgas. Faun Suec/p. 116. Br. ZcoL 150. 

 L ' Oye fauvage du nord. 



Descrip. / a * HE weight of this kind is about five pounds 

 JL and a half: the length two feet four: the 

 extent four feet fix: the bill elevated, of a pale yel- 

 low color, with a white nail. The forehead white : 

 head and neck of the fame color with thole of the 

 former: the coverts cf the wing-, the primaries 

 and fecondaries darker : in the tail the afh color 

 predominates: it is like the two preceding, fur- 

 rounded 



