BRITISH BIRDS. 



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THE WHITE-FRONTED WILD GOOSE. 



LAUGHING GOOSE. 



(A user Albifroiis. Oie -rieuse on a front blanc, 

 Temm.) 



MEASURES two feet four inches in length, and 

 four feet six in the extended wings, and weighs 

 about five pounds. Bill thick at the base, of a 

 yellowish red ; nail white ; from the base of the 

 bill and corners of the mouth, a white patch is 

 extended over the forehead : rest of the head, 

 neck, and the upper parts of the plumage in some 

 specimens are dark brown, in others they vary to 

 a lighter brown, and each feather is margined 

 more or less with that colour : the primary and 

 secondary quills are of the same, but much darker ; 

 and the wing coverts are tinged with ash: breast 

 and belly dirty white, and barred with irregular 



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