Crossword-Solution: ANATID 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The =Anseres=--Lamellirostral, or soft-billed swimmers, such as the ducks, geese, swans and mergansers, comprising the one family, =Anatidæ=, which is divided into five subfamilies, with four of which we are concerned, viz.: The =Anatinæ=, the fresh-water ducks; the =Fuligulinæ=, the salt-water ducks; the =Anserinæ=, the geese and brant; and the =Cygninæ=, the swans.

FAMILY ANATIDÆ (DUCKS, GEESE, SWANS, ETC.) Bill thick, broad, high at the base, covered with a thin membranous skin and ending in a nail-like horny tip; edges of the mandibles cut into thin parallel ridges, or toothed; wings moderate; legs placed not very far behind; feet, four-toed, palmated; hind toe free, placed high on the tarsus.

ORDER ANSERES FAMILY ANATIDÆ THE GREY LAG GOOSE ANSER CINEREUS Folded wings not reaching to the extremity of the tail; bill strong, orange-yellow, the nail whitish; upper plumage ash-brown, many of the feathers bordered with greyish white; under plumage, in front, light ash-grey, barred on the flanks and belly with brown, behind pure white; irides deep brown; legs dull flesh-colour.

The birds of this genus, though placed among the Anatidæ, or Duck tribe, are so strongly marked by the conformation of the bill that a simple examination of the head alone will enable the student to distinguish either of the species from the true Ducks already described.

This bird is of the order of _natatores_, or swimmers; family, _anatidæ_, of the duck kind; genus, _anas_, or duck.