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BEAN GOOSE. Cuass Il. 
and bluish at the nail and end of the lower man- 
dible; the base (in the male) is bounded by a 
narrow bed of white feathers ; the head and neck 
are cinereous brown, tinged with ferruginous ; 
the breast and belly dirty white, clouded with 
cinereous; the sides and scapulars dark ash- ' 
color, edged with white or rust color; the back 
the same; the coverts of the tail white; the 
lesser coverts of the wings light grey, nearly 
white, the middle of a deeper grey tipt with 
white; the primaries and secondaries grey, tipt 
with black; the feet and legs saffron color; 
the claws black. 
This species arrives in Zincolnshire in autumn, 
and is called there the bean goose, from the likeness 
of the nail of the bill to a horse bean. They al- 
ways light on corn fields, and feed much on the 
green wheat. ‘They never breed in the fens, 
but all disappear in AZay, when they retreat — 
to the sequestred wilds of the north of Hurope. 
In their migration they fly to a great height, 
cackling as they go, and preserve a great re- 
sularity in their motions, sometimes forming 
a strait line, at others assuming the shape of a 
wedge, which facilitates their progress; for 
they cut the air the readier in that form than 
if they flew indiscriminately. : Zi) 
