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ANSERINE. ANSER. 
long as the head, two inches and a third in length, an inch 
and two-twelfths in height at the base, nine-twelfths in 
breadth behind the circular unguis, yellowish-orange with 
the base and unguis black ; tarsus three inches long, dull 
yellow-orange ; the wings longer than the tail ; feathers of 
the neck linear-oblong, disposed in ridges ; head and neck 
greyish-brown ; upper parts dark brown and grey, barred with 
the whitish terminal margins of the feathers ; hind part of 
back blackish-brown ; lower parts pale brownish-grey, be- 
coming white behind. Female similar, but smaller. Young 
with the upper parts darker, the head and neck of a lighter 
brown ; three small patches of white feathers at the base of 
the bill. 
Male, 31, 64, 18^, 2 T ^, 3 T 2 ^, 3, 
Occurs in various parts of Britain during the winter, and 
breeds in the Outer Hebrides, where I have frequently seen 
it in summer. This species is much more common than the 
last, but less so than the next# 
Wild Goose. Bean Goose. Small Grey Goose. Orange- 
legged Goose. 
Anas Anser, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 197. — Anas segetum, 
Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 843. — Anser segetum, Temm. Man. 
d’Ornith. iv. 517. — Anser segetum, Bean Goose, MacGilli* 
vray, Brit. Birds, v. 
233. Anser brachyrhynchus. Short-billed Grey 
Goose. 
Male twenty-eight inches long ; bill (comparatively) very 
small, shorter than the head, nearly two inches in length, an 
inch and two-twelfths in height at the base, seven and a half 
twelfths in breadth behind the unguis, bright carmine, with 
the broadly elliptical unguis and the base of both mandibles 
black ; the tarsus two inches and a half long, pale purplish- 
pink colour ; the wings a little longer than the tail ; feathers 
of the neck linear-oblong, disposed in ridges ; head and neck 
greyish-brown ; upper parts ash-grey, barred with the whitish 
terminal margins of the feathers ; hind part of the back deep 
ash-grey ; lower parts pale grey, becoming white behind. 
Female similar to the male, but smaller. Young with the 
upper parts brownish-grey, barred with brownish-white, the 
lower hind-neck reddish-brown, the lower parts more grey. 
Male, 28, 62, 174, 1 \h 2J, 2 T 7 ¥ , Female, 26, 60. 
Apparently more common in Britain than the last. Fre- 
quent with the Edinburgh poulterers, and more so in the 
