378 GREY-LAG GOOSE. 



BEAN GOOSE. 



ANSER SEGETUM. 

 Genus ANSER. 



A common winter visitor to all our coasts, but is 

 not known with any certainty to have bred here. 



PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 



ANSER BRACHYRHYNCHUS. 

 Genus ANSER. 



Another common winter visitor to the coasts of 

 Great Britain. It is very similar in appearance to the 

 last species, but smaller. 



GREY-LAG GOOSE. 



ANSER CINEREUS. 



Genus ANSER. 

 Grey-legged Goose Grey Goose Wild Goose. 



This bird still breeds in some of the Hebrides, and 

 in one or two parts in the northern counties of Scot- 

 land. Before the fen district was drained it bred 

 regularly in the eastern counties of England ; now, 

 however, it is only a winter visitor. The nest of the 

 Grey Goose is very large often a yard in diameter 

 built of dead reeds, grass and sedge. The eggs are 

 six to eight in number, of a dull creamy-white colour. 

 They measure over three inches in length. This 

 species is kept in a domesticated state by farmers ; 

 in this condition, however, it is often quite white. 



