Bean Goose. NATATORES. ANSER. 263 
fully treated of by Pennant, Monracu, and Brewick, I re- 
fer my readers, without further apology, to the works of these 
distinguished authors. 
Prate 41. represents this bird in about four-fifths of the na- 
tural size. 
Bill orange-red; nail of the bill greyish-white (which, Pisa 
however, is not invariably the case, as TTEMMINCK 4s- tion, 
serts in his description of the distinctive characters of 
this and the following species). Head and neck clove- 
brown, tinged with grey, the feathers of the latter dis- 
posed in rows, and forming lines or furrows. Back, 
scapulars, and wing coverts clove-brown, tinged with 
ash-grey, and the feathers deeply margined with grey- 
ish-white. Lesser wing coverts deep bluish-grey. Up- 
per tail coverts white. Breast and belly greyish-white, 
undulated with transverse bars of a deeper shade. Vent 
and under tail coverts white. Tail clove-brown, with 
the margins and tips of the feathers white. Legs and 
feet tile-red. 
BEAN GOOSE. 
ANsER FERUS, Flem. 
PVATE XE: 
Anser ferus, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 126. sp. 196. 
Anser segetum, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 26. 
Anas Anser (ferus) Linn. Syst. 1. 197. 9.—Raii Syn. 136. sp. 2. 4. 
Anser sylvestris, Briss. 6. 265. 2. 
Anas segetum, Gmel. Syst. 1. 512.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. 843. sp. 28. 
L’Oie sauvage, Buff: Ois, 9. 30. t. 2.—Id. Pl. Enl. 985. 
Oie vulgarie ou sauvage, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 820. 
Saat Gans, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 883.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 
554, 
Bean Goose, Br. Zool. 2. 575. No. 267. Pl. 94.—Arct. Zool. 2. No. 472.— 
Lath. Syn. 6. 464. 23.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 6. pl. 239.— Mont. Ornith. 
Dict. and Sup.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826. p. 286.—Shaw’s Zool. 12. 
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Wild Goose, Flem. Br. Anim. t. 126. sp. 196. 
Provincrat—Common Wild Goose, Small Grey Goose. 
