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handsomely marked with transverse black bars which vary 
greatly in amount, some individuals having the under-parts 
entirely black. 
Adult female nuptial—The black on the breast is less 
conspicuous than in the male. 
Adult winter, male and female.—Similar to the nuptial 
plumage. 
Immature, male and female.—Breast-bars, and white at 
the base of the beak absent ; rest of the plumage darkish- 
brown. In young males the breast-bars are sometimes 
traceable. 
Brak. Orange-yellow, tipped with a white ‘nail.’ 
FEET. Orange-colour ; toe-nails, horn-colour. 
Iripes. Dark brown. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
POTAT: GHNG IME. a wee 2 ae 
WING = ee oa) eS oe aoe 
BEAK aes ae ae ee a 
TTARSO-METATARSUS oh se ep yan 
Eee Bt a oe bos OMA Mil 
Allied Species and Representative Forms.—A_ smaller 
form, the Lesser White-fronted Goose, A. erythropus, 
with darker plumage, breeds in Scandinavia; while a large 
variety, A. gambeli, with very distinct black bars on the 
breast, and more black on the abdomen and flanks than 
our bird, nests in Arctic America, including Greenland. 
BEAN-GOOSE. Anser segetwm (J. F. Gmelin). 
Coloured Figures.—Gould, ‘Birds of Great Britain,’ vol. v, pl. 
2;.Dresser, ‘Birds of Europe,’ vol. vi, pl. 412; Lilford, 
‘Coloured Figures,’ vol. vi, pl. 22; Alpheraky, ‘ Geese 
of Europe and Asia,’ pl. 11. 
This Goose is, in all probability, the most numerous 
of the ‘Grey’ Geese which visit our Isles, although as 
already mentioned, the White-fronted and Grey Lag are 
more often met with in Ireland; the Bean-Goose is scarcer 
in Scotland than elsewhere in the British Isles. It arrives 
on our shores in autumn and leaves in spring. Owing to 
its extreme wariness, it is rather difficult to identify in its 
