250 DUCK. 



29— GREY LAG GOOSE. 



Anas A riser, Ind.Orn.W. 841. Lin. i. 197. Fn. suec. No. 114. Gm.Lin.'u 510. 



Brun. No. 53. Midler, No. 112. Kramer, 338 4. a. Frisch, t. 155. Georgi, 



166. J». arag. 74. ffi«, 274. t. 69. Id. stem. 31. t. 34. f. 1. a— c. Id. Ov. 



34. t.19. f.2. TV. C. P^r. iv. 418. Sehcef. el. t. 20. Raii, 136. A. 4. 138. A 3. 



Will. 274. t. 69. Borowsk. iii. p. 9. 2. a. .Fw. /Mt>. £<?;>/>, iii. t. 105. Tern. 



Man. 526. Id. Ed. 2d. 818. 

 Uces Araka, Fn.arab. p. 3. No. 6. 

 Oca salvatica, Zinnan. Uov. 104. t. 17. f. 91. 

 Die wilde Gans, Bechs. Deut.W. 586. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 842. Id. Muster. 118. Naturf. 



xii. 134. 74. Schmid, p. 146. t. 127. 

 Wild Goose, ^/iin, i. pi. 90. Will. Engl. 358. pi. 69. 

 Grey-lag Goose, Gen. Syn. vi. 459. Id. Sup. ii. 346. Br. Zool. ii. No. 260. Id.fol. 



150. Id. 1812. ii. p. 228. ^/rct. Zool. ii. No. 473. Id. Sup. p. 75. P/i. 7V. 



xv. No- 175, p. 1100. 5. Beicick, ii. pi. p. 292. JLeio. vii. pi. 238. Id. pi. xlix. 



the egg. Wale. i. pi. 61. Pult. Dors. p. 20. Ora. Diet. $ Supp. Wood's 



Zoogr. i. p. 535. 



THE Grey Lag, or Wild Goose, weighs ten pounds ; the length 

 two feet nine inches; extent five feet. The bill is large and elevated, 

 yellowish flesh-colour ; nail white ; head and neck cinereous, mixed 

 with dirty yellow ; neck striated downwards ; back and primaries 

 dusky, the latter tipped with black, shafts white; secondaries black, 

 edged with white ; lesser coverts dusky, edged also with white ; breast 

 and belly whitish, clouded with ash ; rump and vent white; middle 

 tail feathers dusky, tipped and edged with white ; the exterior almost 

 wholly white ; legs flesh colour; claws black. 



This species inhabits the fens of England, supposed not to migrate, 

 as in many parts of the Continent, for they are not only met with in 

 Summer, but breed also in Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and other 

 parts, and generally produce seven or eight young, which are often 

 taken, and easily become tame. These unite into flocks in the 

 winter, as numbers are then met with together. On the Continent, 

 however, they certainly change place in large flocks, often 500, or 



