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ANSER SEGETUM. THE NARROW-BILLED GREY 



GOOSE. 



WILD GOOSE. BEAN GOOSE. SMALL GREY GOOSE. 



Anas Anser. Linn. Sys. Nat. I. 197. 



Anas segetum. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 843. 



L'Oye Sauvage. Anser Sylvestris. Briss. Ornith. VI. 265. 



Bean Goose. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Oie vulgaire ou sauvage. Anas segetum. Temm. Man. d'Orn. III. 



Anser segetum. Temm. Man. d'Orn. IV. 517. 



Bean Goose. Anser Ferus. Selb. Illustr. II. 263. 



Anser segetum. Bean Goose. Jen. Brit. Vert, Anim. 222. 



Anser segetum. Bonap. Comp. List, 55. 



Male thirty inches long ; bill moderately thick, nearly as 

 long as the head, two inches and a third in length, and an 

 inch and two tivelfths in height at the base, nine tioelfths in 

 breadth behind the circidar unguis, yellowish-orange, with the 

 base and unguis black ; tarsus three inches long, dull orange- 

 yellow ; the wings longer than the tail; feathers of the neck 

 linear-oblong, disposed in ridges; head and neck greyish- 

 brown ; upper parts dark brown and grey, barred with the 

 whitish terminal margins of the feathers ; hind part of back 

 blackish-brown ; loiver parts pale brownish-grey , becoming 

 xohite behind. Female similar, bid smaller. Young with the 

 upper parts darker, the head and neck of a lighter brown, three 

 small patches of white feathers at the base of the bill. 



Male in Winter. — This species is in most respects very 

 similar to the last, from which it differs in being somewhat 

 smaller, in having the bill more slender, although not much 

 shorter, the hind part of the back dark brown, and in other 

 particulars noted in the specific character. The body is very 

 bulky, the neck long and slender, the head oblong, much 

 compressed. 



