ANSERINE. BERNICLA. 
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London markets. First distinguished from the Bean Goose 
by M. Baiilon, in 1833 ; afterwards by Mr Bartlet, in 1838, 
who proposed naming it Pink-footed Goose, Anser phoenico- 
pus. 
Anser brachyrhynchus, Baill. Mem. Soc. d’Emul. d’ Abbe- 
ville. — Anser brachyrhynchus, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. iv. 
520. 
234. Anser albifrons. White-fronted Goose. 
Male twenty-eight inches long ; bill thick, short, an inch 
and two-thirds in length, an inch in height at the base, car- 
mine-red, with the unguis white ; tarsus three inches long, 
bright orange-red, the claws whitish ; the wings longer than 
the tail ; feathers of the neck linear- oblong, disposed in ridges ; 
head and neck greyish-brown, forehead white, with a black 
band behind; upper parts brownish-grey, barred with the 
whitish terminal margins of the feathers ; hind part of back 
deep grey ; lower parts greyish-white, irregularly patched 
with black, and becoming pure white behind. Female simi- 
lar, but smaller. Young with the upper parts darker, the 
head and neck of a brighter brown, the white band on the 
forehead very narrow, and tinged with orange. 
Male, 28, 54, 17 , 1*, 3, 3, T V 
This species arrives, like the rest, in the end of October, 
disperses over the country, remains all winter, and departs 
in the beginning of April. It is not common, however, al- 
though generally distributed in the northern parts of Europe 
and America. According to Mr Audubon, the eggs are dull 
yellowish-green, with indistinct patches of a darker tint of 
the same colour, their length two inches and three quarters, 
their breadth an inch and three quarters. 
Laughing Goose. Bald Goose. 
Anas erythropus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 197. — Anas albifrons, 
Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 509. — Anas albifrons, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 
ii. 842. — Anser albifrons, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. iii. 518. — 
Anser albifrons, White-fronted Goose, MacGillivray, Brit. 
Birds, v. 
GENUS CXXI. BERNICLA. BERNACLE-GOOSE. 
The Bernacle-Geese are distinguished from the true 
Geese by their shorter, narrower, and somewhat conical bill, 
and by the feathers of the neck being disposed in the ordi- 
