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NAT A TORES. 



A NATION. 



ANAT1DJE. 



THE GREY-LAG GOOSE. 



Anser 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. 



Lag Wild Goose, &ELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 261. 

 Wild Goose, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 222. 



Grey Lag Wild Goose, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xviii. 



Anas anser ferus, Oie cendree ou premiere, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 818. 

 Anser ferus, ,, pt. iv. p. 517- 



Anas anser, 

 ferus, 



Anser palustris, 

 

 ferus, 



Grey Lag Goose, 

 Grey Lag Goose, 



Goose, 



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

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

 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. 



THE fifth and last Order of Birds, the Natatores, or 

 Swimmers, remains now to be considered. A large por- 



