GREY-LAG GOOSE . — Anser ferus. BEAN GOOSE . — Anser segetum. 
The Grey-lag Goose is the stock from which our domestic geese has been 
derived. 
In a state of domestication the Goose lives to a great age, and when treated 
kindly becomes strongly attached to its friends, and assumes quite an eccentric 
character. Of the breeding and management of the Goose nothing can be said 
in these pages, the reader being referred to the numerous works on domestic 
poultry. 
The Grey-Lag Goose may be known by the pinky bill, with its white horny - 
nail at the tip of the mandible. The head, nape, and upper part of the back are 
ashen brown, and the lower part of the back bluish grey. 
The Bean Goose is another of our English examples of this genus, but it is 
only a visitant of our shores, having its chief residence in the Arctic circle and 
high northern latitudes, and coming southward about October. 
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