148 >NATID-S;. 



2. S.W. Spain, May (Z. H. Irby)*. Seebohm Coll. 



]. Kustendji, Dobnidscha, ^Otli April Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( W. H. Simpson). 



5. Astrakhan (Henke). Seebohm Coll. 



Anser rubrirostris, Hodgs. 



Anser cinereiis, Hume ii) Marsh. Game Birds Ind. iii. p. 55 ilS'^O); 



Oates ed. Hume, Nests i^- Eijijs Ind. B. iii. p. 279 ( 1890^ : Tacz. Fmaie 



Orn. Siber. Orient, p. 1089 (1893). 

 Anser rubrirostris, Salmidori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 91 (1^95); 



Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 211 (1899). 



The eggs of the Indian Grey Lag Goose in the Collection lueasurc 

 respectively : 3-5 by 2-36 ; 3-4 by 2:ib. 



2. Laid in confinement, Etawah, Hume Coll. 



N.W. Prov., India, May. 



Anser albifrons (Sco/>.). 



Anser albitVons, 7'kien. Fortjyflun-. f/es. To;/, tab. Ixxv. tig. (i (1845-54); 

 B'ledeker, Eier Eur. Toy. tab. 63. %. 3 (1855-0.3); Hncifson, Eggs 

 of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 387, pi. cix. fig. iii (1856) ; Dre-fser, Birds Eur. 

 vi. p. 375 (1878); Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 505. pi. 60 (1885); 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 92 (1895) ; Seebohm, Eggs of 

 Brit. Birds, p. 32, pi. 10. fig. 4 (1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. ]>. 211 

 (1899). 



The eggs of the White-fronted Goose measure from 2-\)o to Li-37 

 in length, and from 2 to 2-18 in breadth. 



3. Greenland {E. Feneker : Harqitt Seebohm Coll. 



Coll.). 

 1. Egedesminde, Greenland. Seebohm Coll. 



4. Laid in confinement (Knowslev Crowley Bequest. 



Park). 



• Anser gamteli, Harth 



Anser albifrons, var. gambeli. Cones, Birds X.-West, p. 54ij (1874); 



Baird, Brewer ^- Ridgw. Water Birds X. Am. i. p. 448 (1884); 



Xelson, Report Xat. Hist. Alaska, p. 83 (1887); MacFarlnne, Proc. 



U.S. Xat. Mus. xiv. p. 423 (1891). 

 An.ser gambeli, Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 95 (1895) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-l. i. p. 211 (1899); Xehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 242 (1899). 



The eggs of the American White-fronted Goose vary from y to 

 3-32 in length, and from 1-9S to 2-2 in breadth. 



* Colonel Irby in his ' Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar' (:2nd ed.) 

 makes no mention of the finding of these eggs. Mr. Howard Saunders, 

 however, assures iis that the Grey Lag-Goose has been known to nest in 

 the south-west of Spain (Man. Brit. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 398), probably on the 

 evidence of these specimens. 



