. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ect. Their flight is strong, moderate asto speed, sedate, with short movements of their outspreadwings, the neck stretched forward. When flying to a dis-tance they arrange themselves in lines, either continuous orangular, and when migrating keep at a great height. Theircries are strong, harsh, and creaking, but not disagreeablewhen coming from
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ect. Their flight is strong, moderate asto speed, sedate, with short movements of their outspreadwings, the neck stretched forward. When flying to a dis-tance they arrange themselves in lines, either continuous orangular, and when migrating keep at a great height. Theircries are strong, harsh, and creaking, but not disagreeablewhen coming from a distance. They are at all seasonsgregarious. The nest, composed of grass and other herbage,is placed in marshes or on islands. The eggs, numerous, 588 ANSER. GOOSE. elliptical, and white, variously tinged. The male remains■with the female and young. The Geese appear to moultonly once yearly, in the end of summer. Their flesh ishighly esteemed, although difficult to be digested. As notwo species agree precisely in the form of the bill, I see noreason for separating the Snow Goose from this genus, ofwhich five species are met with in Britain. 589 ANSER FERUS. THE THICK-BILLED GREYGOOSE. WILD GOOSE. MARSH GOOSE. GREY LAG. GREY-GOOSE. FEN Fio. 57. Anas. Anser. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 197. Anas Anser. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 841. Grey Lag Goose. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Supplt. Oie cendree ou premiere. Anas anser ferus. Temm. Man. dOm. II. 818. Anser ferus. Temm. Man. dOrn. IV. 517. Grey Lag Wild Goose. Anser palustris. Selb. Illustr. II. 261. Anser ferus. Wild Goose. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 222. Anser cinereus. Bonap. Comp. List, 55. Male thirty-three inches long ; bill very thick, as long asthe head, two inches and a half in length, an inch and a halfin height at the base, ten-and-a-half-twelfths in breadth be-hind the circular unguis, yellowish-orange, with the unguisivhite or bluish-grey ; the tarsus three inches long, flesh-coloured ; the wings scarcely shorter than the tail; feat
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