57 6 WHITE FRONTED GOOSE. Class II. 



and is called there the bean goofe, from the likenefs 

 of the nail of the bill to a horfe bean. They always 

 light on corn fields, and feed much on the green 

 wheat. 



They never breed in the fens ; but all difappear 

 in May. They retreat to the fequeftred wilds of the 

 north of Europe: in their migration they fly a great 

 height, cackling as they go. They preferve a great 

 regularity in their motions, fometimes forming a 

 flrait line, at others affume the fhape of a wedge, 

 which facilitates their progrefs *, for they cut the 

 air the readier in that form than if they flew pell- 

 mell. 



2-63. White The laughing Goofe. Ea^v. Britfon a-v. VI. 269. 



Fs-Onted. a-v. 153. Polniiche Ganfs. Kram. 339. 



Anas erythropus (fam.), Danis Vild Gaas. Brunnicb 9 



Lin. fyfi. 197. 53. 



Fiasllgas. Faun. Stiec.fp. 116. Br. Zoo!. !fO» 

 L'Oye fauvage du fiord. 



De scrip. r°Tr^ HE weight of this kind is about five pounds 

 J[ and a half: the length two feet four: the 

 extent four feet fix: the bill elevated, of a pale yel- 

 low color, with a white nail. The forehead white : 

 head and neck of the fame color with thofe of the 

 former: the coverts of the wing; the primaries 

 and fecondaries darker : in the tail the am. color 

 predominates: it is like the two preceding, fur- 

 rounded 



