BEAN GOOSE. 



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NATATORES. 



ANATlD.i:. 



THE BEAN GOOSE. 



Penx. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 233. 

 Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 303, fig. p. 299. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 126. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 263. 

 Jenvns, Brit. Vert. p. 222. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xiv. 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 820. 

 ,, „ ,, pt. iv. p. 517. 



The Bean Goose is principally a winter visiter to the 

 British Islands, and from the numbers that are seen in that 

 season of the year, is the most common, and the most numer- 



