THE YELLOW-BILLED BEAN-GOOSE 



Melanonyx arvensis, Brehm 

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English — Bean-Goose ; Bog-Goose ; Grey Goose (these names being used for both M. arvensis 



and M. segetum) ; Yellow-billed Bean-Goose (F. W. Frohawk) ; ? Carr-lag (F. 



Coburn, if = paludosus, Strickland). 

 Russian — Gus polevoi ; gumennik polevoi ; sery gus ; laplandski gumennik (Buturlin) ; 



kuslamy gus (Yaroslavl gov., teste Sabaneev, if it does not refer to the bean-goose) ; 



pashenny gus (from confounding with M. segetum) ; khrushkoi (Perm, gov., if not 



M. segetum) ; khrushkdya kazarka (Perm, gov., teste Sabaneev) ; gus and diki gus 



(Pomory, probably this species). 

 Lappish — Chon (on Imandra) ; Chuonya (East Finmark) ; Stuora chuonya (Munioniska). 

 Finnish— Hanhi (gen. name of goose) ; Metsa-hanhi (wood-goose) ; Isohanhi (great goose) ; 



Komahanhi. 

 German — A cker-Gans ; Feldgans ; Feldsaatgans ; grosse Gans ; Buntschndbliche Saatgans ; 



grosse Moorgans ; grosse Zuggans ; Buntschnabel ; Rostgelbgraue Gans. 

 French — Oie sauvage ; oie des moissons ; oie vulgaire (ces noms etant donnes aussi a 



M. segetum). 



Anas fab alls {partim), Latham, Gen. Syn., Suppl. i. p. 297 (1787). 



Anas segetum, Gmelin {partim), Syst. Nat, i. p. 512 (1788). 



Anser arvensis, Brehm, Isis, 1830, s. 996; id., Vog. Deutschl., s. 839 (1831); Naumann, Vogel Deutschl., xi. 

 p. 277, pi. 286 (1 842) ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur., p. 407, pi. 45, fig. 4 (1 870); Pleske, Th., Beitr. Kennt. Russ. R., 

 2nd ed., ix. p. 233 (1886); Pleske, Kr. obz. mlek. i pt. Kolsk pol., p. 337 (1887); Middend., Reis. 

 Sib., ii., pp. 226 and 227 {partim), 185 1 ; Buchner, Pt. Spb. gub., p. 5 1 3 (1884); Buchner and Pleske, 

 Beitr. z. Orn. S. P. G., No. 176 (1881); Eversmann, Or. kr., p. 554 {partim}), 1868; Bogdanov, Pt. 

 i zv. Povolzhya, p. 147 (1871) ; Sabaneev, " Zhurn. Okh.," 1874, p. 12 ; Menzbier, Pt. Ross., i. pp. 745 

 and 746 (1895); Buturlin, Dikie gusi Ross. Imp. (" Psov. i Ruzh. Okh.," 1901, Feb.-April) ; id., 

 separ., pp. 34 and 46 (sub-g. Melanonyx) ; Somov, Orn. F. Khark. g., p. 444 (1897) ; Kholodk. i Silant, 

 Pt. Yevr., 1 90 1, p. 522, pi. 42, f. 3 ; Zarudny, Orn. F. Zakasp. kr., 1896, p. 437 ; Ruzski, Mater, iz. 

 pt. Kaz. gub., p. 117 ; Lorenz, Vogel Mosk. Gouv., p. 58 (1894); Radde, Ornis Cauc., p. 445 {partim), 

 1884 ; Palmen, Cab. J. f. Orn., 1876, p. 53 ; Frohawk, "The Field," Oct. 4, 1902, p. 605 (with drawings 

 of bill); Ruzski, Tr. Obshch. Yest. pri Kaz. Un., xxv. No. 6, p. 117 (1893); Frohawk, "Zoologist," 

 1903, p. 41, pi. ii. ; Sorokin, "Psov. i Ruzh. Okh.," Jan. 1903, p. 113, etc. 



Anser sylvestris, Degl. and Gerbe, Orn. Eur., ii. p. 294 (1849) {partim) ; id, op. cit. ii. p. 481 (1867) 

 (partim). 



Anser segetum, Bruch, Isis, 1828, p. 734, pi. ix. fig. 4; Khomyakov, Pt. Ryaz. g. (Mater, к pozn. Faun, i Fl. 

 Ross. Imp., otd. zoolog., No. 1 (1900), pi. ii. figs. 1, 2 ; id., separ., p. 34, pi. ii. figs. 1, 2 ; ? Nikolski 

 {partim}), Pozv. zh. Kryma, p. 289 (1891); Radde, Ornis Cauc, p. 445 {partim), 1884; Sabaneev, 

 Ukaz. Kn. St. Okh. i Zool. Sod., pp. 455-458 (1883); Zarudny {partiml), Orn. F. Orenb. kr., p. 223 

 (1888); Ruzski, Ptitsy Kazanskoi gub.; Midd., Reis. Sib., ii., pp. 225-227 {partim), 185 1 ; Sushkin 



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