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ORD. III. GEN. X. GOOSE. 



SPE. III. WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 

 PL 241. 



Anas erythropus (female). Lin. Syft. I. 4 p. 197. 

 L'Oie fauvage du nord. Btif. Orn. VI. p. 269. 



This bird weighs near feven pounds. The bill is very thick at the bafe, 

 and of a pale orange colour } the nail at the tip is white : the forehead, and 

 round the bafe of the bill, white : head, and neck, a pale dun : back, and 

 wings, grey ; greater wing coverts, edged with white : quills, black : bread 

 and belly, white, with black curved markings : rump, and vent, white : legs, 

 orange : webs, dufky. 



It breeds in the northern parts of Europe and America, and vifits us in the 

 winter in fmall flights only, confining itfelf to the fens and marines. 



Linnseus has erroneoufly confidered this fpecies as the female of our berna- 

 cle goofe. 



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