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the Russian Empire to the great Yenesei River (Scebolira 

 and Popham). It reaches China (Ibis, 1892, p. 490) and 

 Japan, and has been recently obtained in Burma by Col. 

 Rippon. Mr. Blanford writes of it as " a very rare cold- 

 weather immigrant in Northern India,'' and examples have 

 been lately procured at Calcutta {cf. Finn, P. A. S. Beng. 

 1898, p. 1). It has been repeatedly shot in Greece, where 

 it is said even to breed. It not infrequently comes as near 

 to us as Denmark and Holland (see Zoologist, 1885, p. 33), 

 and M.Dubois cites two occurrences in Belgium (November 

 1856 and winter of 1858), while Mr. Howard Saunders 

 examined one in Italy (Ibis, 1869, p. 395). As might be 

 expected, it is occasionally obtained in Northern Egypt in 

 winter (see P. Z. S. 1876, p. 414). The accompanying map 

 (fig. 8) will best shew its distribution. 



Fio-. 8. 



Map showing tlie distribution of Anset- erythropits. 



There are some naturalists who would unite the three 

 White-fronted Geese under one name, but this seems an 

 unscientific way of treating the question, and so long as 

 tiie slightest difference in colour — even to the colour of an 

 eyelid — can be found, combined (as it is in their case) with 



