^9^ BRITISH BIRDS. 
GREY LAG GOOSE, 
OR COMMON WILD GOOSE. 
{^Anas Anfer^ Lin . — UOie Jauvage^ BufF.) 
This Wild Goofe generally weighs about ten 
pounds, and meafures two feet nine inches in length, 
and five in breadth. The bill is thick at the bafe, 
tapers towards the tip, and is of a yellowifli red co- 
lour, with the nail white : the head and neck are 
of a cinereous brown, tinged with dull yellow, and 
from the feparations of the feathers, the latter ap- 
pears flriped downwards : the upper part of the 
plumage is of a deep brown, mixed with afli-grey % 
each feather is lighter on the edges, and the leffer 
coverts are tipped with white : the fliafts of the pri^ 
