BEAN GOOSE. NATATORES. ANSER. 263 



fully treated of by PENNANT, MONTAGU, and BEWICK, I re- 

 fer my readers, without further apology, to the works of these 

 distinguished authors. 



PLATE 41. represents this bird in about four-fifths of the na- 

 tural size. 



Bill orange-red ; nail of the bill greyish-white (which, General 

 however, is not invariably the case, as TEMMINCK as- tion. P 

 serts in his description of the distinctive characters of 

 this and the following species). Head and neck clove- 

 brown, tinged with grey, the feathers of the latter dis- 

 posed in rows, and forming lines or furrows. Back, 

 scapulars, and wing coverts clove-brown, tinged with 

 ash-grey, and the feathers deeply margined with grey- 

 ish-white. Lesser wing coverts deep bluish-grey. Up- 

 per tail coverts white. Breast and belly greyish-white, 

 undulated with transverse bars of a deeper shade. Vent 

 and under tail coverts white. Tail clove-brown, with 

 the margins and tips of the feathers white. Legs and 

 feet tile-red. 



BEAN GOOSE. 



ANSER FERUS, Flem. 



PLATE XLII. 



Anser ferus, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 126. sp. 196. 



Anser segetum, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 26. 



Anas Anser (ferus) Linn. Syst. 1. 197. 9. Rail Syn. 136. sp. 2. 4. 



Anser sylvestris, Briss. 6. 265. 2. 



Anas segetum, Gmel. Syst. 1. 512 Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. 843. sp. 28. 



L'Oie sauvage, Buff. Ois, 9. 30. t. 2 Id. PL Enl. 985. 



Oie vulgarie ou sauvage, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 820. 



Saat Gans, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 883 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 



554. 

 Bean Goose, Br.-Zool. 2. 575. No. 267. PL 94 Arct. Zool. 2. No. 472 



Lath. Syn. 6. 464. 23 Lewin's Br. Birds, 6. pi. 239. Mont. Ornith. 



Diet, and Sup. Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826. p. 286 Shaw's ZooL 12. 



26. 

 Wild Goose, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 126. sp. 196. 



PROVINCIAL Common Wild Goose, Small Grey Goose. 



