222" 
'ANAS ANSER. 
GREY-LAG GOOSE 
Bill semicylindric ; body above cinere- 
ous, beneath paler ; neck striate. 
Anas Anser, Lin. Gme. 
Oie sauvage Buffon, 
Wild Goose, Will. 
Grey-lag Goose, Lath. Pen. Bew. Mont. 
PROVINCIAL. 
FEN GOOSE, 
This species (the origin of our Tame 
Goose) is indigenous to this Kingdom. 
Formerly numbers of them bred and con- 
tinued the whole year in the fens of Lin- 
colnshire, and other swamps, contiguous to 
the eastern coasts But the labour of Man, 
by draining and cultivating these fens and 
morasses, has greatly diminished their num- 
t ers. so much so, that we are uncertain 
