450 WILD GOOSE. ClafsII. 



The WHITE FRONTED WILD GOOSE. 



The laughing Goofe. Edw. av. L'Oye faiivage da nord. Brijfon 



153. av. vi. 269. 



Anas erythropus {fam.) Lin. Polnifche Ganfs. Kram. 339. 



fyft. 197. Danis Vild Gaas. Brunnich. 53, 



Fiasllgas. Faun. Suec./p. 1 160 Br. Zool. 150. 



/ *T" V HIS is found very frequently in the winter, in 

 ■*■ the marfhes of Chejhire : and in all the northern 

 Defer. wor ld as far as Hud/or? s -bay : The weight is about 

 five pounds: the length twenty-eight inches; the 

 breadth four feet and a half: the bill is of a reddifli 

 yellow, and much thicker and larger than that of 

 the common wild goofe : the forehead white : the 

 crown of the head is of a deep cinereous brown : the 

 upper part of the breaft of a light afh- color, clouded 

 with a deeper : the belly is white, marked with large 

 black fpots : the coverts of the wings are grey, edged 

 with brown : the feathers above and below the tail 

 white, the tail black, edged with white: the legs orange 

 color, the claw whitifh, or pale flefh color. From 

 the fimilitude the bill of this bears to the common 

 tame goofe, and from the whitenefs of the forehead, 

 which often appears on that of tame geefe with brown 

 heads, we believe that they derive their origin from this 

 fpecies, not the common wild goofe. Linn<eus 

 makes this the female of the Bemacle, than which 

 fcarce any two birds of this genus can differ more. 



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