CNERO DU CELON

Subfamily ANSERINA.

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, umbers about thirty species of G . > know anitholeere yee
In round n y species of Geese are now known to o1 nithologists. They admit of being

divided into many genera, of which Cereopsts, Anser, and Nettapus are conspicuously distinct from each other :
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it is, however, with the genera Anser and Bernicla only, or true Geese, that we have to do with in the ‘ Birds

of Great Britain.’

Genus Anse.
313. ANSER FERUS. : : , : : : . : : : : Vol Ve-EIe in
Grey Lac Goose.
A stationary species. Breeds in many parts of Scotland and Ireland. The original of our Common
Goose.
314. ANSER SEGETUM : : : : : ; ; VoleVe Bir iit

Bran-Goose.

A winter visitant. More common on the western than the eastern parts of Scotland and England.

315. ANSER BRACHYRHYNCHUS . : : : : ; : : : : : Wolk Wo JBL Wot
Pinx-FOOTED Goose.

A winter visitant, arriving from the north in autumn ; plentiful in the wolds of Yorkshire at that season.

316. ANSER ALBIFRONS. : : : : : : : : : : ; Vol VE Rie LV.
WHuiTE-FRONTED Goose.

This is also a winter visitant to the British Islands.

317. ANSER ©GYPTIACUS.
Egyptian Goose.

Supposed by some to be an occasional visitor, by others that those which are occasionally seen are stray

individuals from some domestic home.

318. ANSER ALBATUS.

Cassin’s Snow-Goose.
; : ce ee ee 7 ’ sa Deel re
See Howard Saunders, in the ‘Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,’ March 1872, for an

account of two specimens of this bird killed in Wexford Harbour in November 1871.