156 ANATID.E. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Resident, breeding 

 on the Bass Rock, Haddington ; Suliskerry, 40 miles west of 

 the Orkney Islands ; Sulisgeir, Outer Hebrides; Ailsa Craig, 

 Ayrshire ; Grassholm, Pembrokeshire ; Bull Rock, co. Cork ; 

 Skelligs, co. Kerry ; -St. Kilda group. Formerly it nested 

 on Lundy Island. In winter it has a wider range. 



General Distribution. The Gran net breeds in the Faeroes 

 and Iceland, also on the north-east coast of North America 

 at Bonaventura Island, and the Bird Rocks in the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence. In winter it ranges south to the Mediter- 

 ranean, as far east as Italy and Tunisia, north-west Africa, 

 Madeira, the Canary Islands, Azores, and the Gulf of 

 Mexico. 



Order ANSERIFORMES. 



Family ANATID^. 



' . Genus ANSEE Brisson, Orn. vi. 1760, p. 261. 

 Type : A. anser (Linn.). 



Anser=& Goose, in classical Latin ; cognate with %riv, Sanskrit hansas, 

 German Gans (our "Gander"), Norse gaas, Anglo-Sax, gos goose, gandra 

 gander, srano=gannet, Eng. Goose; originally haiiser. Probably from the 

 root of xaii'ia, xdffKtii=I gape. 



Anser anser. GEEY LAG-GOOSE. 



Anas anser Linnceus. Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 123: Sweden. 



Anser cinereus Meyer; B. O. 77. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 115; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 397. 

 Anser ferus (Brunn.} ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds J5. M. xxvii. 1895, 



p. 89. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Resident in the 

 north of Scotland, breeding in Caithness, Sutherland, Ross- 

 shire, and on the Outer and some of the Inner Hebrides. In 

 winter its numbers are greatly augmented and it is then 

 more generally distributed, but is scarce on the east coast. 

 It occurs occasionally on passage at the Shetland and Orkney 



