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BEAN GOOSE, 



WILD GOOSE. 



Anser ferns, FLEMING. SEI.BY. 



" seqetum, JENYNS. GOULD. 



" sylvestris, BRISSOX. 



Anas segetum, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Anser A Goose. Ferus Wild savage . 



THE Bean G-oose is plentiful in Norway, Sweden, Finland, 

 and Lapland, where, as in the Ferroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, 

 Nova Zembla, and still higher northern latitudes, it rears 

 its young-; it is found abundantly also in France, Germany, 

 and Holland, Spain and Italy: in the former countries it 

 breeds. In Asia, too, in the northern districts. 



Its dwelling-places are the borders of inland seas and 

 lakes, rivers and ponds, swamps and ditches, stubble fields 

 and others. In the latter they feed in the day-time, and 

 towards evening repair to the open sands, where they roost 

 during the night after bathing and drinking. 



In Yorkshire, these birds frequent the Wolds in immense 

 flocks, and seem to prefer those higher grounds to others 

 that are lower and more marshy. They have been met with 

 also in other places, as at Sheffield, York, and Killingbeck, 

 near Leeds. In Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, this species 

 also occurs by the River Severn. In Northamptonshire it is 

 a common visitor, as I am informed by the Hon. T. L. Povvys; 

 so it also used to be in Cambridgeshire, in the fens, when 

 fens still existed, as recorded by the Eev. 'Leonard Jenyns. 

 In Norfolk, the species is pretty abundant in autumn, winter, 

 and spring: it also occurs in Lincolnshire. 



In Scotland, it breeds in Sutherlandshire, on Loch Shin, 

 Loch Naver, Loch Laigal, and several other of the lakes; as 



