BRITISH BIRDS. 



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THE BEAN GOOSE. 



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, Temm. Oic inilgairc on sauvagc, 

 Temm.i 



DIFFERS very little in its general appearance 

 from the Grey Lag Goose, with which it has often 

 been confounded, the chief distinction between 

 them being in the bill, which in this is smaller, 

 depressed near the end, of a pale red in the middle, 

 and black at the base and nail : the latter is shaped 

 somewhat like a horse-bean, from which the species 

 has obtained the name of Bean Goose. Length 

 two feet seven inches; breadth four feet eleven; 

 weight about six pounds and a half. Head and 

 neck of a cinereous brown, tinged with ferruginous : 



