ANSERES. ( 66 ) ANATIDM. 



THE BEAN GOOSE. 



WILD GOOSE, SMALL GREY GOOSE, NARROW- BILLED GREY GOOSE. 



Anser segetum. 

 THE PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 



WILD GOOSE, SHORT-BILLED GREY GOOSE. 



Anser brachyrhynchiis. 

 Clje man (Boo^e. 



And Wyld Geis eik claking by nychtis tyde, 

 Attour the ciete fieand hard I glyde. 



Gawin Douglas, A Description of Wynter. 



" A straw for your wanderi?!g spirits," said Adam Woodcock, " / mind them no 

 more than an Erne cares for a string of Wild Geese." 



Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot. 



Immense flocks of Wild Geese frequent Berwickshire during 

 the autumn and spring months, consisting of the Bean 

 Goose, with its Pink-footed congener ; ^ and as the relative 

 number of the two kinds is a matter of conjecture, owing 

 to the similarity of their plumage — whilst their habits are 



1 Seebohm says: "The Piuk-footeil Goose can scarcely be regarded as more 

 than a local race, or an island form of the Bean Goose. With the exception of the 

 fact that its notes are said to be sharper in tone and more rapidly repeated than 

 those of the Bean Goose, it is not known to differ from that bird in any of its 

 habits,"— J3ri<('s/i Birds, vol. iii. (1885), pp. 498, 499. 



