200 GEESE AND GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS. 



tinguished chiefly by the colour of bill and legs, by 

 the white or dark nail and the presence or absence 

 of a coloured band across the bill, by the lighter or 

 darker tracts of gray at the shoulder and on the 

 rump, and by the presence or absence of black breast- 

 markings. The characteristics for the identification 

 of the Gray Lag are the blue-gray shoulder and 

 rump, the flesh-coloured bill with white nail, and the 

 flesh-coloured legs and feet. 



WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE— 27 inches ; conspicuous white 

 tract about base of bill ; bill orange, with white nail ; 

 legs and feet orange ; shoulder and rump darker ; heavy 

 black markings on breast. 



BEAN GOOSE— 34 inches ; bill black, crossed centrally by 

 orange band ; shoulder and rump dark ; no black breast- 

 markings ; legs and feet pinkish-yellow. 



PINK-FOOTED GOOSE— 28 inches; darker gray on shoul- 

 der and rump ; bill black, with pink central cross-band ; 

 legs and feet pink ; no black on breast. 



BEAN GOOSE.— Form, like the Gray Lag-Goose 

 (plate 88). Length, 34 inches. Upper parts brown ; 

 grayish on head and neck ; blackish on lower back ; 

 shoulder slaty-gray ; under parts grayish- white, with 

 no black markings on breast ; wing-lining dark slate- 

 colour ; bill black, banded with orange across the 

 middle ; legs and feet pinkish-yellow. Winter migrant. 



Distribution. — A winter visitor, fairly general, 

 though unevenly distributed round our coasts. 



A breeder in the far north, the Bean Goose is 

 found on our coasts only during winter, feeding by 

 day and sleeping at night as described under the Gray 

 Lag-Goose. It aflects pasture rather than stubble 



