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Islands. To England and Wales it is a rare and irregular 

 Winter Visitor, especially to the soulh and west. It is scarce 

 in most parts of Ireland, but some numbers visit the south 

 and west. Formerly it bred in the carrs of Yorkshire and in 

 the fens of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, but ceased to 

 do so at the beginning of last century. 



General Distribution. The northern breeding-range of the 

 Grey Lag-Goose extends from Iceland and Scandinavia to 

 Kamchatka ; its southern limit is more difficult to define, 

 but the bird breeds in Denmark, locally in Holland and north 

 Germany, occasionally in south Spain and commonly along 

 the lower Danube and Black sea ; it is also found in Trans- 

 caucasia, Persia, Turkestan, and probably China, though at 

 present only recorded from there as a winter visitor. In 

 winter it resorts to southern Europe and northern Africa ; also 

 to north and central India and China as far south as Canton. 



Anser fabalis. BEAN-GOOSE. 



Anser fabalis Latliam, Gen. Synop. Suppl. i. 1787, 

 p. 297 : Great Britain. 



Anser segetum (Gmel.); . O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 115; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 401. 

 Anser fabalis Lath. Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. Jt. xxvii. 1895, 



p. 99. 



Fabalis = of beans (as Geese often frequent bean-stubbles). 



Distribution in tlie British Islands. A Winter Visitor, 

 commoner on the west coast of Great Brit.-iin than on the 

 east. It is scarce in the north of Scotland and some of the 

 Inner Hebrides, and almost unknown in the Outer Hebrides. 

 In the Orkneys its occurrence requires confirmation, but it 

 has been obtained at Fair Isle, Shetlands. In Ireland it is 

 often numerous in the midland and western counties, 

 especially in severe winters, but rare in the south. 



General Distribution. The Bean-Goose breeds in Kolguev, 

 Novaya Zemlya, and north-eastern Riissia, but is apparently 

 only met with on passage in Finland and Lapland. East of 



