. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . fatherin the dark-coloured nail on the tip of the upper mandible. The Orange-legged Bean Goose measures thirty-sixinches in length; the beak two inches and a half from theforehead to the tip; the wing, from the carpus to the tip,nineteen inches and a half; the tarsus three inches and ahalf; the tail consists of sixteen feathers; the wings, whenclosed, do not extend beyond the tip of the tail. The head, and upper part of the neck are greyish brown, thelower part of the neck, and the under parts are pale ash colour;the upper part of the
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . fatherin the dark-coloured nail on the tip of the upper mandible. The Orange-legged Bean Goose measures thirty-sixinches in length; the beak two inches and a half from theforehead to the tip; the wing, from the carpus to the tip,nineteen inches and a half; the tarsus three inches and ahalf; the tail consists of sixteen feathers; the wings, whenclosed, do not extend beyond the tip of the tail. The head, and upper part of the neck are greyish brown, thelower part of the neck, and the under parts are pale ash colour;the upper part of the back, scapulars, and all the wing-covertsare brownish ash, bordered with white; the rump is brownishblack; vent and under tail-coverts, pure white ; the beak isblack at the nail and base, and orange in the middle; eyesdeep brown; eyelids dark grey; the legs and feet are orange. The female is smaller, and the young have a paler ash-coloured plumage, and two or three white spots near the beak. The egg figured 229 is that of the Orange-legged Bean Goose. :. WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 21 NATATORES. ANATIDM- PLATE CCXXX. WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. ANSER ALBIFRONS. The White-fronted Goose is, like the rest of its family,a winter visitant in Great Britain, by no means uncom-mon, but still not so numerous as some others, its num-bers depending in a great measure upon the state of thewinter. We shot one of these birds in the month of February,1847, on the Thames, after having observed it for severaldays on a gravelly and broken bank of the river, that hadremained free from snow, on account of its shelteredsituation, while the entire neighbourhood was snow-clad ;this bird was one of a flock that had been observed tofly once or twice over the fields ; it did not seem to be shy,as we met with it several times flying over our heads withintwenty yards, and also standing about on Chertsey Mead,and in a cropped osier-bed ; this bird could not have beenleft behind by its flock on account of any infirmity,
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