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BIRDS OF MIDDLESEX. 



SPECIES. 

 GREYLAG . . . 



BEAN. . . . 

 PINKFOOTED 



WHITEFRONTED 



BILL. 



Flesh-colour ; nail 



white. 

 Orange ; nail, edges 



and base black. 

 Pink; nail and base 



black. 



Pink; nail and base 

 white ; forehead 

 white. 



LEGS. 

 Flesh-colour. 



Orange. 



Pink, tinged with 

 vermilion, like 

 Egyptian Goose. 



Orange. 



In addition to these differences of bill and legs, 

 the first and third differ from each other in the 

 following respects. The Greylag invariably has 

 some black feathers on the belly, which the other 

 has not, and the grey colour in the wings of the 

 Greylag runs through the wing like a double bar, 

 which is very conspicuous when the pinions are 

 stretched ; whereas in the wing of the Pinkfooted 

 Goose the grey colour is more uniformly distributed 

 in a mass. 



It is the Greylag Goose which is still to be found 

 breeding in the Highlands. Mr. St. John once 

 thought that the Pinkfooted Goose bred on one of 

 the lakes in Sutherlandshire, and went there to 

 ascertain this point, accompanied by my friend, Mr. 

 John Hancock. The birds proved, however, without 

 exception, to be the Greylag. 



Wild Geese may be known on the wing by their 



