GREY LAG GOOSE. Class II. 



3. Grey 

 Lag. 



Anas Anser. A. rostro semicy- 

 lindrico, corpore supra ci- 

 nereosubtuspallidiore, collo 

 striato. Lath. Ind. orri. 841. 

 id. Syn. vi. 45g. id. Sup. i. 

 273. id. Sup. ii. 346. 



L'Oye privee, L'Oye Sauvage. 

 JBelon av. 156. 158. 



Gesner av. 142. 158. 



Aldr. av. iii. 42. 67. 



Tame Goose, common wild 

 Goose. IVil. orn. 358. sp. 

 1,2. 



Rail Syn. av. 136. sp. 3, 4. 



L'Oye domestlque, L'Oye Sau- 

 vage. frisson av. vi. 265. 

 Hist, d'ois. ix. 30. PI 

 Enl. 985. 



Oca domestica, Salvatica, Ba- 

 letta. Zinan. 104. 



Gus dikaya. Russ. N. Com. 



Petr. iv. 418. 

 Wild ganss, Einheimische 



ganss. Kram. 338. Frisch, 



ii. 155, 157. 

 Anas anser (ferus). Gm. Lin. 



510. 

 Gas-^will gas. Faun. Suec. sp. 



114. 

 Crantzs Greeiil. i. 80. 

 Danis Tarn Gaas. Brunnich, 



55. 

 Grey Lag, the Fen-Goose of 



Lister. Ph. Trans, abr. ii. 



852. 

 Goss {the tame). Scopoti, No. 



Qq. 

 Br. Zool. 150. Arct. Zool. ii. 



268. 



Descuip- X HIS is our largest species ; the heaviest weigh 

 ten pounds ; the length is two feet nine inches ; 

 the extent five feet. The bill is large and elevat- 

 ed, of a flesh color, tinged with yellow ; the nail 

 white; the head and neck cinereous, mixed with 

 ochraceous yellow ; the hind part of the neck very 

 pale, and at the base of a yellowish brown ; the 

 breast and belly whitish, clouded Avith grey or 

 ash color ; the back grey ; the lesser coverts of 

 the wings almost white, the middle row, deep 



