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and open in front; legs short, tibia half naked; feet with three 
anterior toes only, long and webbed to their extremities, lateral 
ones marginated; nails short, blunt; wings long, narrow; quills 
short, and the secondaries long. 
Diomedea exulans. — The Wandering Albatross. 
Plate LX IV. fig. 3. 
Back, rump, and scapulars, gray, the latter margined with 
white; rest of the wings brownish-black; second quill yellow 
on the edge ; head and under parts white; irides and bill yel¬ 
low ; legs and toes orange, webs, yellow fawn-colour. Four 
feet long. Inhabits the coasts of Africa and America. 
Genus 11.—ANSER.— Ray. 
Generic Character. —Bill as short, or shorter than the head ; 
deeper than broad at the base, and narrowed towards its extre¬ 
mity, nostrils large, elliptical, longitudinal, placed near the 
middle of the bill; neck longer than in the Anas, and shorter 
than in the Cygnus ; legs longer than the former, and placed far¬ 
ther forwards, near the centre of gravity ; three anterior toes 
entirely connected by a membrane, hallux articulated on the tar¬ 
sus, without any connecting membrane ; wings long ; first and 
second quill the longest. 
Anser leucopsis. — The Bernacle Goose. 
Plate LXIV. fig. 6. 
Upper parts barred with bluish-gray, black, and white ; crown, 
back of the neck, shoulders, throat, breast, and tail, black ; face, 
cheeks, and chin, under parts, white ; tibia marked with dusky 
lines ; legs and feet dusky, very short and thick. Twenty-six 
inches long. Inhabits the Arctic regions. 
Anser ruficollis. —The Red-Breasted Goose. 
Plate LXIV. fig. 5. 
Front, crown, nape, and back parts of the neck, black; and a 
black patch under the eyes ; a white space between the eye and 
bill; two stripes of white, extending from the back of the eyes 
to the bottom of the neck ; neck, and upper part of the back, 
deep rusty-red ; back and wings dusky ; lower part of breast and 
