546 BEAN AND GREY LAG GOOSEo- 



472. Bean Goose, Br. Ztoh 11. li^ i,ST.^—Lathami\iu — Lev. Mus-. ' 



Y\^ With a fmall bill, much comprefled near the end j bafe and' 

 nail black ; middle of a pale red : head and neck cinereous 

 brown, tinged with ruft : breaft and belly dirty white, clouded with 

 afh-color : leflTer coverts of the wings very light grey :. back plain 

 alh-color : fcapulars darker, edged with white : primaries and fe- 

 condaries grey, edged with black : tail edged with white : legs faf- 

 fron-color : claws white. Length two feet feven. Weight fiz^ 

 pounds and a half. 

 Place. OhkrvcAhy 'Wiv..Hearne,'m Hudfon's. Bay. Is- \n Europe a. northern, 



bird. Breeds in great numbers in Lewis, one of the Hebrides, and 

 is moft deftruftive to the green corn. Migrates at the latter end 

 of Auguft, in flocks innumerable, into the wolds of Yorkjhire, and- 

 .into Lincolnjhire ; and among them are fome white*. They alL 

 difappear in the fpring. The appearance and difappearance of this 

 kind in Auftria is fimilar \. Wild Geefe are feen flying over, but: 

 very rarely alight in the Orknies. 



473. Grey Lacj Br. Zool. ii. N° 266. — Anas Anfer. Willgas, Faun. Suec. N° 114.— Wild Goofe 



Goose. j,f all authors.— ia/zJa/a, iii. 



L'Oye Sauvage, P/. £«/. 995.— Lev. Mus.— Bl. Mus. 



T), With an elevated bill, flefh-colored, tinged with yellow, and 

 with a white nail : head and neck cinereous, mixed with dirty 

 yellow : neck flriated downwards : back and primaries dufky j the lafb 

 tipt with black; fliaftswhite: fecondaries black, edged with white deflir 

 coverts duflcy,, edged with white : breafl and belly whitifh, clouded with 



• Lijfer, in Ph. Tr. Ahridg. ii. 852. I cannot but fufpeft, that fome of the Snow 

 Geese, N° 477, may mix with them, as none of this geaus vary in color in the 

 wild Rate. 



\ Kratntr Amm, Aujir, 11^^ 



s alh-color % 



