ANSERINE. BERNICLA. 149 



London markets. First distinguished from the Bean Goose 

 by M. Baillon, in 1833 ; afterwards by Mr Bartlet, in 1838, 

 who proposed naming it Pink-footed Goose, Anser phcenico- 

 pus. 



Anser brachyrhynchus, Baill. Mem. Soc. d'Emul. d' Abbe- 

 ville. Anser brachyrhynchus, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. iv. 

 520. 



234. ANSER ALBIFRONS. WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 



Male twenty-eight inches long ; bill thick, short, an inch 

 and two-thirds in length, an inch in height at the base, car- 

 mine-red, with the unguis white ; tarsus three inches long, 

 bright orange-red, the claws whitish ; the wings longer than 

 the tail ; feathers of the neck linear-oblong, disposed in ridges ; 

 head and neck greyish-brown, forehead white, with a black 

 band behind; upper parts brownish-grey, barred with the 

 whitish terminal margins of the feathers ; hind part of back 

 deep grey ; lower parts greyish-white, irregularly patched 

 with black, and becoming pure white behind. Female simi- 

 lar, but smaller. Young with the upper parts darker, the 

 head and neck of a brighter brown, the white band on the 

 forehead very narrow, and tinged with orange. 



Male, 28, 54, 17, 1 T \, 3, 3, T V 



This species arrives, like the rest, in the end of October, 

 disperses over the country, remains all winter, and departs 

 in the beginning of April. It is not common, however, al- 

 though generally distributed in the northern parts of Europe 

 and America. According to Mr Audubon, the eggs are dull 

 yellowish-green, with indistinct patches of a darker tint of 

 the same colour, their length two inches and three quarters, 

 their breadth an inch and three quarters. 



Laughing Goose. Bald Goose. 



Anas erythropus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 197. Anas albifrons, 

 Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 509. Anas albifrons, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 

 ii. 842. Anser albifrons, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. iii. 518. 

 Anser albifrons, White-fronted Goose, MacGillivray, Brit. 

 Birds, v. 



GENUS CXXI. BERNICLA. BERNACLE-GOOSE. 



The Berriacle-Geese are distinguished from the true 

 Geese by their shorter, narrower, and somewhat conical bill, 

 and by the feathers of the neck being disposed in the ordi- 



