15. ANSKR. 91 



at the tip, which is white : bill pink tlesh-colour, M'ith the horny 

 nail white ; irides brown ; legs, toes, and membranes dull tlesh- 

 colour ; claws black. Total length 3'J inches, wing 17-5, tail 5-5, 

 bill 2- Co, tarsus 2-8. 



Female. Similar to the male, but smaller. Total length 30 inches, 

 wing 16. 



Tounff. Darker than the adult and with no black spots on the 

 breast and abdomen ; they are easily distinguished by the grey 

 colour of the shoulders and rump, and tlesh-colour of the bill and legs. 



Hab. Western Palaearctic region. 



a. Ad. sk. Great Britain. 



b. Ad. St. Great Britain. Purchased, 

 f, d. Ad. St. Norfolk. Purchased. 



e. Ad. St. Blackwater R., Essex. F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 



/. 2 ^- sk. Tromsci, Norway, June. Seebohm Coll. 



ff. Pull. sk. Bodo, Norway. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



h. Skeleton. 



7. Skeleton (Domestic variety). 



k-(j. SkuUs (Domestic variety). 



r. Sternum with shoulder-girdle (Domestic variety) 



2. Anser rubrirostris. 



.^Anser vulgaris, part.. Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. ii. p. 222 (1811); 



Brandt, J.f. 0. 1891, p. 2G6. 

 Anser er^-thropus, part., G. R. Gr. Lut B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 129, 



specim. e,/ (India) (1844). 

 Anser rubrirostris, Hodqs. Icon. Lied, in Mas. Brit. pi. 579 ; id. 



Grai/'s Zool. Misc. p. 8G, no. 579 (1844) ; G. R. Gr. Cat. Hudr/s. 



Cotl. B. M. p. 144 (184G); Tacz. Bull. Sue. Zool. Fr. ii. p. 41 



(1877). 

 An.oer ferus, Adams {nee aud.), P. Z. S. 1859, p. 189 (Ladakh, 



breeding) ; t^ivinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 844, 18(52, p. 254; id. P.Z. S. 



1863, p. 323, 1870, p. 427. 

 Anser cinereus, Blyth {nee Meyer), Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 300, 



n. 1775 (India) (1849)'; Schrenck, Voq. Amurl. p. 465 (1860) : Radde, 



Reis. Sihir. p. 358 (Mongolia) (18ti3); G. R. Gr. Cat. Hodgs. 



Coll. B. M. 2nd ed. p. 76, no. 627 (1863) ; Jerd. B. of lad. "iii. 



p. 779 (1864) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 174 ; Bi/b. ^- Parre.v, J. f. O. 



1868, p. 338 (Dauria) ; Serertz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 70 (1873) ; 



Hume, S(r. Feath. i. p. 258 (Punjab and Sindh) (1873) ; id. Nests 



8c Eqgs, p. 635 (1873) ; Bull. Str. Feath. iv. p. 26 (1876) ; Scully, 



ibid', p. 197 (Turkestan) (1876) ; Dress. Ibis, 1876, p. 418; David 



4- Oust. Ois. CAjW, p. 491 (1877) ; Prjev. in Roxvl. Orn. Misc. iii. 



p. 95 (Mongolia) (1878); Hume, Str. Feath. vii. p. 491 (1879), 



viii. p. 114, n. 945 (1879) ; Hume S,- Marsh. Game-Birds, iii. 



p. 56 ()iec pi. 7) (1880) ; ? Zaroudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 72 (1885) ; 



Severtz. Zeitschr. qes. Orn. 1887, p. 22 ; Pleske, Rev. Turkest. Orn. 



p. 54, n. 369 (188s) ; Hume, Nests Sr Eyqs {Oates' ed.), iii. p. 279 



(1890); Sharpe, Sec. Yark. Miss., Aves, p. 128 (1891): Pleske, 



Mil. Biol. siii. p. 298, n. 165 (1892) ; Oust. Nouv. Arch. Mus. 



(4) vi.p. 96 (1894). 

 Anser cinereus, var. rubrirostris, Sxoinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 416 



(Shanghai^ Dyb. J.f. 0. 1873, p. 108, 1874, p. 336; Przexv. 



