GREY-LAG GOOSE. 



NATATORES. 



145 



ANATID^E. 



THE GREY-LAG GOOSE. 



Anserferus. 



Anas anser, Grey-lay Goose, 



ferm, 



Anser palustris, Grey Goose, 



, Grey-lag Wild Goose, 



ferus, 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 228. 

 MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 

 BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. 



p. 299 ; but not the figure. 

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 126. 

 SELBY, Brit. Ornith, vol. ii. 



p. 261. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 222. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Wild Goose, 



Grey-lag Wild Goose, 



A nas anser ferus, Oie cendree on premiere, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. 



p. 818. 



Anserferus, pt. iv. 



p. 517. 



ANSER. Generic Characters. Beak not longer than the head, conical, 

 elevated at the base, which is covered with a cere, or skin ; under man- 

 dible smaller than the upper. Nostrils lateral, placed towards the middle 

 of the beak, pierced anteriorly. Legs under the centre of the body ; the 

 tarsi long, the hind toe free, articulated upon the tarsus. 



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