94 AXATID.E. 



Mon. Anat. p. 90 (part.; (1838) ; Bp. Cat. Met. Ucc. Eur. p. 69, 

 n. 418 (1842) ; G. R. Gr. Geti. B. iii. p. 607, n. 3 (part.) (1844) : 

 Ech^b. Syn. Av., Natatores, t. 102. ff. 238-39 (1845) ; G. E. Gr. 

 Cat. Brit. B. p. 187 (1863) ; Schleff. Mus. P.-B., Auseres, p. 110 

 (part.) (1866); Eyt. Syn. Anat. p. 38 (part.) (1869); Fritsch, 

 Vog. Eur. p. 404, t. 45. f. 9 (1870) ; Gieb. Then. Orn. i. p. 370 

 (part.) (1872) ; Hume, Str. Feath. i. p. 259 (Jhelum) (1873) ; 

 Seehh. Ibis, 1884, p. 269 (,iuv.) (Yang-tse-Kiang).^ 



Anser medius, Bruch (nee Meyer), Z«s, 1828, p. 732; Sleep, Isis, 

 1829, p. 1054; Temm. Man. crOrn. 2nd ed. iv. p. 519 (1840) ; 

 Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 100 (1854) ; Brehm, ISaumannia, 1855, 

 p. 297 ( = interniedius, Naum.). 



Anser bruchii, C. L. Brehm, lais, 1830, p. 996 (descr. nuUa) ; id. 

 Vog. De^dschl. p. 841 (1831); Bp. Cat. Met. Ucc. Eur. -p. 69, 

 n. 419 (1842); G. B. Gr.Gen. B. iii. p. 607, n. 4 (1844); 

 Rchnh. Syn. Ai:, Natatores, t. 103. f. 958 (1845); C. L. Brehm, 

 Naumannia. 1855, p. 297 ; Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 648, n. 16, 

 p. 1025 (1856) ; Fritwh, Vog. Eur. p. 405, t. 45. f. 5 (1870). 



Anser intermedius, Naum. Vog. Deidschl. xi. p. 340, t. 288 (1842) ; 

 Selys, Naumannia, 1855, p. 263; Bias, in Naum. Vog. De.utschl. 

 xiii. p. 293 (1860) ; Rchnw. J. f. 0. 1890, p. 81 ; Rein. *$• Rchnw. 

 Norn. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 341 (Egypt) (1890). 



? Anser albifrons roseipes, Schleg. Naumannia, 1855, pp. 254, 256, 

 257. 



? Anser pallipes, Selys, Naumannia, 1855. p. 2G4 (domestic race) ; 

 I)egl. Sr Gerb. Orn. Eur. ii. p. 485 (1867); Fritsch, Vog. Eur. 

 p. 405(1870). 



? Anser albifrons a. pallipes, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 648 (1856). 



? Anser pallidipes, A. Neict. Pr. Ac. Philad. 1871, p. 99 *. 



Adult male. Forehead and feathers at the base of the upper 

 mandible white ; head, neck, back, rump, and wings brownish ash- 

 colour ; upper tail-coverts white ; breast and belly pale brownish 

 white, with patches and broad bars of black ; sides and flanks ash- 

 brown, with paler edgings, and with a white band on the upper 

 margin ; vent and under tail-coverts white ; upper wing-coverts 

 greyish brown, with paler edgings, the greater ones edged with 

 white, forming a conspicuous band ; wing-primaries bluish black ; 

 secondaries black ; tail-feathers dark grey, tipped with white : bill 

 orange-yellow, the nail white ; irides dark brown ; legs, toes, and 

 membranes orange, claws wbirish horn-colour. Total length 27 

 inches, wing 16, tail 6, culmen 1-9, tarsus 2-5. 



Female. Similar to the male, only somewhat smaller. 



Toeing bird of the year is more uniform in colour and rather 

 darker ; the feathers at the base of the upper mandible are of a 

 deeper brown than those of the rest of the head ; the nail and 

 point of the beak light brown ; the pale brown feathers of the 

 breast are uniform in colour, without any dark patches or bars. 



Hah. Northern Palaearctic region from Iceland to Siberia, and 

 also Greenland, migrating south to the coasts of the Mediterranean, 

 Egypt, the Caspian Sea, Northern India, and China. 



* Larger than A. albifrons and with the legs of A.ferus («. e. pink flesh- 

 colour). 



