a3) 
S. GREY 
Lac. 
DESCRIP« 
TION. 
GREY LAG GOOSE. 
Anas Anser. A. rostro semicy- 
lindrico, corpore supra ci- 
nereo subtis pallidiore, collo © 
striato. Lath. Ind. orn. 841. 
ad. Syn. vi. 459. id. Sup. i. 
273. id. Sup. ii. 346. 
L’Oye privée, L’Oye Sauvage. 
Belon av. 156. 158. 
Gesner av. 142. 158. 
Aldr. av. iii. 42. 67. 
Tame Goose, common wild 
Goose. Mil. orn. 358. sp. 
ip. 
Raii Syn. av. 136. sp. 3, 4. 
L’Oye domestique, L’Oye Sau- 
vage. Brisson av. vi. 265. 
iist.. dois. ix. 30. Pl. 
Enl. 985. 
Oca domestica, Salvatica, Ba- 
Gus dikaya. Russ. N. ‘Com, 
Petr. iv. 418. se 
Wild ganss, Einheimische 
ganss. Kram. 338. Frisch, 
ii. 155, 157. 
Anas anser (ferus). Gm. Lin. 
510. 
Gas—will gas. Faun. Suec. sp. 
114. 
Crantz’s Greenl. i. 80. 
Danis Tam Gaas. Brunnich, 
ao. 
Grey Lag, the Fen-Goose of 
Lister. Ph. Trans. abr. ii- 
852. 
Goss (the tame). Scopoli, Na. 
60. . 
Br. Zool. 150. Arct., Zool. ii. 
268. 
letta. Zinan. 104. 
THIs 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 with grey or 
ash color; the back grey; the lesser coverts of 
the wings almost white, the middle row, deep 
