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ANSERINE. ANSER. 



long as the head, two inches and a third in length, an inch 

 and two-twelfths in height at the base, nine-twelfths in 

 breadth behind the circular unguis, yellowish-orange with 

 the base and unguis black ; tarsus three inches long, dull 

 yellow-orange ; the wings longer than the tail ; feathers of 

 the neck linear- oblong, disposed in ridges ; head and neck 

 greyish-brown ; upper parts dark brown and grey, barred with 

 the whitish terminal margins of the feathers ; hind part of 

 back blackish-brown ; lower parts pale brownish-grey, be- 

 coming white behind. Female similar, but smaller. Young 

 with the upper parts darker, the head and neck of a lighter 

 brown ; three small patches of white feathers at the base of 

 the bill. 



Male, 31, 64, 18|, 2 T \, 3 T ^, 3, T V 



Occurs in various parts of Britain during the winter, and 

 breeds in the Outer Hebrides, where I have frequently seen 

 it in summer. This species is much more common than the 

 last, but less so than the next. 



Wild Goose. Bean Goose. Small Grey Goose. Orange- 

 legged Goose. 



Anas Anser, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 197. Anas segetum, 

 Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 843. Anser segetum, Temm. Man. 

 d'Ornith. iv. 517- Anser segetum, Bean Goose, MacGilli- 

 vray, Brit. Birds, v. 



233. ANSER BRACHYRHYNCHUS. SHORT-BILLED GREY 

 GOOSE. 



Male twenty-eight inches long ; bill (comparatively) very 

 small, shorter than the head, nearly two inches in length, an 

 inch and two-twelfths in height at the base, seven and a half 

 twelfths in breadth behind the unguis, bright carmine, with 

 the broadly elliptical unguis and the base of both mandibles 

 black ; the tarsus two inches and a half long, pale purplish- 

 pink colour ; the wings a little longer than the tail ; feathers 

 of the neck linear-oblong, disposed in ridges ; head and neck 

 greyish-brown ; upper parts ash-grey, barred with the whitish 

 terminal margins of the feathers ; hind part of the back deep 

 ash-grey ; lower parts pale grey, becoming white behind. 

 Female similar to the male, but smaller. Young with the 

 upper parts brownish-grey, barred with brownish- white, the 

 lower hind-neck reddish-brown, the lower parts more grey. 



Male, 28, 62, 17*, l}i, 2, 2 T ^, T V Female, 26, 60. 



Apparently more common in Britain than the last. Fre- 

 quent with the Edinburgh poulterers, and more so in the 



