CXXVII. 



ANSER PALUSTRIS. (Flem.) 



Grey Lag AVild Goose. 



This species is said to have bred at one time in the fenny 

 distiicts of this country, but with regard to this there is I 

 beheve a good deal of uncertainty, it having been till within 

 a few yeai's, confounded with the following species. We were 

 not successilil in meeting with it in Norway, although we 

 ascertained that a species of Goose, which, from description, 

 we supposed to be the present, breeds upon the high grounds 

 inland. For the egg, now figured, I am indebted to the 

 kindness of Mr. YaiTell. 



ANSER FERUS. (Flem. 

 Bean Goose. 



The Bean Goose, which is now the Common Wild Goose 

 of this Country, is said to breed on some of the Western isles 

 of Scotland, 



Mr. Selby saw several of them with their young ones, during 

 an excursion in Sutherland-shire, upon the borders of one of 

 the fresh-water lochs. We had the pleasure of finding a nest 

 upon the centre of one of the numerous islands which cover 

 the Norwegian sea. It was within a short distance of the 



