THE BEAN-GOOSE 



Melanonyx segetum, Gmelin 

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English — Bean Goose ; Bog Goose ; Harvest Goose (this species in England has hitherto been 

 generally confounded with M. arvensis). 



Russian — Gus ; diki gus ; gumennik ; gumennik ; gumydnnik ; pashenny gus ; sibiryak 

 (Kazan Gov., Bogdanov) ; temnoklyuvy gumennik (Buturlin) ; gumennik zapadno- 

 sibirsky (Buturlin) ; koltsenosy gumennik (Kholodk. and Silantyev) ; ? gumennik- 

 nemok (on Kolguev, Trevor- Batty e) ; }netntyr\ tnemaya kazarka and ? khrushkoi 

 (Perm Gov., Sabaneev 1 ); ? kamsky gus (Kazan Gov,, Ruzsky). 



Samoyed—Jebtan (Pechora district, 2 Seebohm). 



German — Kleine Saatgans ; Ringelschnablige Saatgans ; Roggengans ; Bohnengans ; 

 Zuggans ; Wilde Gans ; kleine Wilde Gans ; kleine Hagelgans ; Schneegans ; 

 Moorgans (these names taken from Naumann). 



French — Oie sauvage ; oie des moissons (names common to yellow-bill). 



Anser sylvestris, Frisch, Vog. Deutschl., pi. 155; Artsy bashev, Bull. Soc. Mosc, 1859, iii. p. 100; Degl. and 

 Gerbe, Ornit. Eur., ii. p. 487 (1867) (partim). 



Anser fabalis, Latham, Gen. Syn., Suppl. i. p. 297 (1787); Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvii. p. 99, 1895 

 (partim); Bianchi, " Yezheg. Zool. Muz.," vii. 1902, p. 271. 



Anser fab alus (errore), Buturlin, Dikie Gusi Ros. Imp., p. 35 ("Psov. i Ruzh. Okh.," 1901). 



Anas segetum, Gmelin, Syst. Nat, i. 2, p. 512, No. 68 (1788); Bechstein, Nat. Deutschl, 2nd. ed., iv. p. 883 

 (1801). 



Anser ferns, Bonnaterre, Encyclop. Method, i. p. 110, No. 7 (1790) (Exclus. a, b). 



Anser segetum, Bonnaterre, Encyclop. Method, i. p. 116 (1790) ; Meyer, Taschenb., ii. p. 554 (18 10) ; Erasmann, 

 Ye. I. Or. kr., p. 555 (1868); Naum., Vog. Deutschl., xi. p. 300, pi. 287 (1842); id., Naumannia, 1853, 

 pp. 5-8, pi. i. figs. D, E, F (rostra); Palmen, Cab. Journ. f. Orn., xxiv. p. 53 (1876); Menzbier, Pt. 

 Ros., i. p. 741 (partim), 1895 ; id., Prom. Pt. Ros. i Kavk., p. 469, pi. 134 (1902); Pleske, Th., Vog. 

 Kola Hlbns. Beitr. Kent. Russ. R., ix. p. 235 (partim), 1886; Pleske, F. D., Krit. obz. Mlek. i Ptits 

 Kolsk. pol-va, pp. 336 and 341 (1887); Biichner and Pleske, Beitr. Orn. S. P. G., 1881, No. 1 77 ^ 

 Biichner, Pt. Spb. gub., p. 512 (1884); Kholodkovsky and Silantyev, Pt. Yevropy, p. 522, pi. 4 2 > 

 fig. 2; Buturlin, Tabl. dlya opred. Plastinch. ("Psov. i Ruzh. Okh./' 1900); id., separ., p. 8; 

 Silantyev, Opred. Yevr. Pt, p. 112 (1901) ; Buturlin, Sinopt. tabl. Okh. Pt. Ros. Imp., p. 44 09 01 ); 

 Lorenz., Vog. Mosk. Gouv., 1894, p. 58; Sushkin, Pt. Ufimsk. gub., p. 69, etc. (1897); id., Ibis, 1897, 

 iii. p. 5 (rostrum); Semenov, " Pr. i Okh.," 1898, vii. pp. 12-13; Somov, Orn. Fauna Khark. gub., 

 p. 443 (1897); Deryugin, Orn. izsl. Pskovsk. gub., "Trudy Imp. Spb. Obshch. Yest," Otd. zool, 

 xxvii. pt. 3, p. 27 (1897); id., op. cit. 1898, p. iii (partim}); Karamzin, Pt. Sam. i. Ufim. gub., 

 p. 181 ; Smirnov, Zur Ornis des Barenzmeers ("Orn. Jahrb.," xii. 1901, pt. 6) (pro parte) ; Radde, Ornis 

 Cauc, p. 445 (partim) (1884); Nikolsky, Pozv. zh. Kryma, p. 289 (1891) (partim?); Radde (partim), 



1 The majority of these names refer also to the yellow-bill. 

 2 It must be supposed that in the Pechora district the prevailing species under this name is M. arvensis. 



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