15. ansi;r. 97 



Scarcely diflfererit from A. albifrons ; on the average it is larger 

 and has a bigger bill. " Iris very dark brown ; biU milky white 

 (becoming tiesh-colour some time after death), the anterior part 

 and tomia with a very faint rosy tinge, the posterior part with a 

 hardly perceptible wash of bluish ; a square figure on culmen, edges 

 of nostrils, a small spot beneath them, and the basal two-thirds of 

 the lower half of the under mandible cadmium-yellow; naked skin 

 on mental angle and corner of mouth of the same colour, but paler ; 

 a stripe along the forehead pale brownish yellow ; tail cream- 

 coloured : naked eye-ring dark brownish grey ; feet vivid cadmium- 

 yellow ; webs somewhat paler and purer yellow ; nails horny 

 white " (Stejneger). Total length 29 inches, culmen 2"3. 



Hah, Northern America (except Greenland), migrating south as 

 far as Mexico and Cuba, and along the E. Asiatic coast to Japan. 



N. America. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Arctic Auierica. Capt. Back [P.]. 



Arctic coast, E. of Ft. Ander- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sun, July (McFarlane). 



Repulse Bay. Dr. Rae [P.]. 



Brownsville, Texas, Feb. {F. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



B. Armstrong/). 



British Columbia. J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.l. 



N.W. America. Capt. CoUinson [P.J. 



St. Michael's, Alaska, June, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Aug. (E. W. Nelson). 



Japitn. Purchased. 



Yokohama {H. Pi-ijer). Seebohra Coll. 



llakodadi, April, Oct. (i>Va^t6-- Seebohm Coll. 



ton). 



5. Anser erythropus. 



Anas erythropus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 197, n. 11 (part, et svn. emend.) 



(1766). 

 Anser finmarchicus, Gunner, in Leemii de Lappon. Comm. notis, 



p. 264 (1767); Rckmo. J.f. O. 1890, p. 81 ; Hein. u. Rchnw. 



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

 Anas albifrons, part., G/n. .S. N. i. 2, p. 509, n. 64 (1788) ; Liifh. Ind. 



Orn. ii. p. 842, n. 27 (1790) ; Vicill. N. D. xxiii. p. 344 (1818). 

 Anser albifrons, part., Bonn. Enc. Meth.'i. p. 114 (1790); Steph. 



Gen. Zool. xii. 2, p. 25 (1824); Dum. Did. Sc. Nat. xxxv. p. 461 



(1825) ; Wriffht (rwc Scop.), Finl. Fugl. p. 43 (1859) (cf. Ibis, 



1861, p. 111). 

 ? Anser erythropus, Pull. Zooyr. Rosso- As. ii. p. 225 (1811).* 

 Anser temiuinckii, Uoie, Isis, 1822, p. 882 (Hamburg) ; Schleg. Rev. 



Crit. p. ex (1844); Midd. Reis. O.-Sibir. ii. p. 228, t. xx. f. 2 



(pullus) (1851) (Taimvr R., Boganida) ; Pelz. u. Lor. Ann.k. tiaturh. 



Hofmus. iii. p. 58 (1888). 

 Anser cineraceus, C. L. Brehm, Lehrb. Naturg. eur. I'og. ii. p. 772 



* Rostrum pallido rubicundum, pedes rubi-i (!). 

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