BEAN GOOSE. 



ANSERES. 



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 ANATID^F. 



Anser segetum (Gmeliu*). 



THE BEAN GOOSE. 



A.nser sefietiiin. 



The Bean Goose, and the Pink-footed Goose next to be con- 

 sidered, may readily be distinguished from the two preceding 

 species by the bbick " nail " at the tip of the bill, whereas it 

 is white in the Grey Lag and the White-fronted species. 

 Forty years ago, when the first Edition of this work was 

 published, very confused notions were entertained respecting 

 the distribution and comparative abundance of the four species 

 of ' Grey ' Geese ; and the Bean Goose was said to breed in 

 Westmoreland, the Hebrides, and upon several of the Suther- 

 landshire lakes. No Wild Goose nests at the present day in 



* Anni! sff/ctuni, Gmelin, Syst. Nat, i. p. r)12 (1788). 

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