57c GREY LAG GOOSE, Class II. 



266. Grey Grey Lag, the Fen-Goofe of Raiifyn. av. 136. 



Lag. Lifter. Ph, Tro.uf. abr.ll. Gofs (the tame). Scopo/z,No. 



852. 69. 



Descrip. r £ '^HIS is our largeft fpeci^s -, the heavieft 

 j[ weigh ten pounds : the length is two feet 

 nine *, the extent five feet. 



The bill is large and elevated -, of a flefh color, 

 tinged with yellow : the nail white : the head and 

 neck cinereous, mixed with ochraceous yellow : the 

 the hind part of the neck very pale - s and at the 

 bafe of a vellowifh brown. 



Bread and belly whitifh, clouded with grey or 

 afh color : back grey : lefTer coverts of the wings 

 almoil white ; the middle row, deep cinereous 

 ilightly edged with white : the primaries grey, 

 tipt with black, and edged with white : fecondaries 

 entirely black 5 grey only at their bafe : the fcapu- 

 lars of a deep afh color, edged with white. 



The coverts of the tail, and the vtnt feathers of 

 a pure white : the middle feathers of the tail duf- 

 ky, tipt with white; the exterior feathers al mo ft 

 wholly white. The legs of a flefh color. 

 History. This fpecies refides in the fens the whole year: 



breeds there, and hatches about eight or nine 

 young which are often taken, eafily made tame, 

 and efteerned moft excellent meat, fuperior to the 



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