ANSER CINEREUS. 



(GREY LAG GOOSE.) 



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Anser sylvestris, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 265 (1760). 



Anas anser, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 197 (1766). 



L'Oie, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ix. p. 30 (1783). 



Anser cinereus, Meyer, Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk. ii. p. 552 (1810). 



Anser vulgaris, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. ii. p. 222 (1811). 



Anas anser fer us, Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 526 (1815). 



lAnser medius, Meyer, Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk. Zus. u. Bericht. p. 231 (1822). 



Anser ferus, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. 2, p. 28 (1824). 



Anser palustris, Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 126 (1828). 



Anser sylvestris, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 836 (1831). 



Geadh-glas, Gaelic ; Oie cendree, French ; Ganso, Anser, Spanish ; Oca selvatica, Italian 

 Wiz, Moorish ; Graugans, Wildgans, Stammgans, German ; graauwe Gans, Dutch 

 Graagaas, Danish ; Grdgds, Fseroese ; Graagaas, Vildgaas, Norwegian ; Grdgds, Swedish 

 Meri-hanhi, Finnish ; Gus-zumennic, Russian. 



Figurm notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 29; Kjaerb. Orn. Dan. taf. 44; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 45. 

 fig. 8 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 285 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 56. fig. 3 ; Gould, 

 B. of Eur. pi. 347; id. B. of G. Brit. v. pi. 1; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 275; Roux, 

 Orn. Prov. pis. 358, 359. 



Ad. capite, collo, dorso et scapularibus cinereo-fuscis, capite iinmaculato, fronte vix albo marginata, colli 

 plumis vix pallidiore marginatis et plumis in corpore supra conspicue pallide fusco marginatis : remi- 

 gibus primariis cinereis saturate fusco terminates, scapis albis, secundariis saturate fuscis : tectricibus 

 alarum, centralibus exceptis, pallide cano-cinereis : uropygio pallide cinereo, lateribus et supracaudalibus 

 albis : cauda fusca, albo terminate : corpore subtiis albo, hypochondriis cinereo-fuscis albido terminatis, 

 abdomine vix nigro guttato : subalaribus pallide cinereis : rostro flavo-incarnato, ungue albido : 

 pedibus flavido-incarnatis : iride fusca. 



Juv. ubique sordidior, corpore supra saturatiore, nee fronte albo notata, corpore subtiis albido nee nigro 

 guttato. 



Adult Male (Lincolnshire coast, 12th November) . Head, neck, back, and scapulars ashy brown, the head 

 plain-coloured, the crown rather darker, and a faint white line over the forehead at the base of the bill ; 

 feathers on the neck loose and furrowed with slightly lighter tips ; back and scapulars darker brown 

 with light-brown edgings to the feathers ; primaries grey terminated with dark brown, the shafts white ; 

 secondaries dark brown; only the central wing-coverts coloured like the back, the rest, with the 

 spurious wing, being ashy blue-grey ; rump ashy grey, except the sides, which, with the upper tail- 



