156 ANATID.E. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Resident, breeding 

 on the Bass Rock, Haddington ; Suliskerry, 40 miles west o£ 

 the Orkney Islands ; Sulisgeir, Outer Hebrides ; Ailsa Craig, 

 Ayrshire ; Grassholm, Pembrokeshire ; Bull Rock, co. Cork ; 

 Siielligs, CO. Kerry ; St. Kilda group. Formerly it nested 

 on Lundy Island. In winter it has a wider range. 



General Distribution. — The Gannet breeds in the Faeroes 

 and Iceland, also on the north-east coast oi: North America 

 at Bonaventura Island, and the Bird Rocks in the Grulf o£ 

 St. Lawrence. In winter it ranges south to the Mediter- 

 ranean, as far east as Italy and Tunisia, north-west Africa, 

 Madeira, the Canary Islands, Azores, and the Gulf of 

 Mexico. 



Order ANSERIFORMES. 



Family ANATID^. 



Genus ANSER Brisson, Orn. vi. 1760, p. 261. 

 Type: A. anser (Linn.). 



^?iser=a Goose, in classical Latin; cognate with x^v, Sanskrit hansas^ 

 German Gans (our "Gander"), Norse gaas, Anglo-Sax. 3os=goose, gandra= 

 gander, 5ramoi=gannet, Eng. Goose; originally hanser. Probably from the 

 root of ;^nirw, ;;^a(7Kw=I gape. 



Anser anser. Geey Lag-Goose. 



Anas anser Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 123 : Sweden. 



Anser cinereus Meyer ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 115 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 397. 

 Anser ferns (Briinn.) ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 1895, 



p. 89. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Resident in the 

 north of Scotland, breeding in Caithness, Sutherland, Ross- 

 shire, and on the Outer and some of the Inner Hebrides. In 

 winter its numbers are greatly augmented and it is then 

 more generally distributed, but is scarce on the east coast. 

 It occurs occasionally on passage at the Shetland and Orkney 



