150 BEAN-GOOSE. PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 



ANSER SEGETUM— Bean-Goose. 



Ranged in figure (Wild Geese) wedge their way 



and set forth 



Their airy caravan on high over seas 

 Flying, and over lands with mutual wing 

 Easing their flight. 



Milton. 



The Bean-Goose is one of the most common and numerous 

 of the Wild Grey Geese which visit the British Isles during the 

 winter months. It sometimes remains to breed in the north of 

 Scotland. It is very common on the Norwegian coast, and in 

 Sweden. Flocks of the Bean-Goose not unfrequently pass over 

 Herefordshire, but they seldom stay to rest here. Mr. Lingwood 

 records it in his List of Herefordshire Birds ; and there is a 

 specimen in the Hereford Museum, which was shot by Mr. F. 

 R. James on the Wye, at Mordiford, in 1881. 



In India, the Goose is the symbol of sleepless vigilance, and 



Wild Geese are so difficult to approach, that the expression " A 



Wild Goose chase " has become proverbial for an unsuccessful 



enterprise. 



Nor watch dogs, nor the yet more wakeful Geese, 

 Disturb with nightly noise the sacred peace. 



Dryden. 



The consecrated Geese in orders, 

 That to the Capitol were warders, 

 For being then upon patrol. 

 With noise alone beat off the Gaul. 



Butler— Hudibras. 



ANSER BRACHYRHYNCHUS— Pink-footed Goose. 



If he be free 

 Why then, my taxing like the Wild Goose flies 

 Unclaim'd of any man. 



Shakespeare— yls you like it, II., 7. 



If thy wits run the wild goose chase 

 I've done. 



Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet, II., 4. 



This Goose is smaller than the Bean-Goose. It frequents 

 the same locahties, and is known by the rosy, pink colour of its 



