534 On Alphirakifs 'Geese of Europe and AsiuS 



distribution : A. brachyrhynchus is a more western bird, 

 extending from Spitsbergen and probably also from Franz- 

 Joseph Land to North-western Europe, wintering in large 

 numbers in Great Britain. Anser neglectus, so far as we 

 know at present, extends from Novaya Zemlia and probably 

 also from Kolguev Island, through the Ufa Government 

 in Russia, to Hungary, Persia, and most probably also to 

 India, from which country it appears to have been recorded 

 under the name of A. brachyrhynchus. It is not unlikely 

 that A. neglectus breeds also to the eastward of Novaya 

 Zemlia, and that from its summer-quarters it migrates to 

 -Japan ; also to China, if it can be proved, as appears very 

 likely, that Anser oatesi Rickett, from Foochow, is identical 

 with A. neglectus. 



The following references appear to belong to Anser 



NEGLECTUS : 



? Anser brachyrhynchus Blyth (ncc Baill.) Cat. B. Mus. 

 A. S. B. p. 301. n. 1756 (Panjab) (1849) ; Irby, Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 247 (Alumbag, Oudh) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 780 

 (1864); Swinh. Puis, 1 S 7 ."> , p. 150 (Japan); Hume, Str. 

 Feath. i. pp. 99, 258 (Etawah) (1873), viii. p. 114. n. 946, 



(1879) ; Hume & Marsh. Game B. of Ind. iii. p. 71, pi. ix. 



(1880) ; McLeod, Str. Feath. x. p. 108 (Punjab) (1887) ; 

 Hume, Str. Feath. xi. p. 339 (1888); Seebh. B. Jap. Emp. 

 p. 236 (note) (1890); Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind. iv. p. 418 

 (1898) ; Oates, Man. Game-B. of 1ml. ii. p. 05 (1899) ; Finn, 

 How to know the Ind. Ducks, p. 17 (1901). 



? Anser obscurus Severtz. (nee Brehm) Turkest. Jevotn. 

 p. 70 (1873) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1875, p. 184 ; Dress. Ibis, 

 1876, p. 418 ; Severtz. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1887, p. 22. 



? Anser segciuni (part. ?) Trcvor-Battye, Ice-bound on 

 Kolguev, p. 4.23 (1895). 



Anser neglectus Sushkin, Bull. Br. Orn. Club, v. p. vi 

 (1895); id. Ibis, 1890, p. 135; 1897, pp. 5-8, pi. ii. f. 1 

 (bill); Sharpe, Hand-list, i. p. 211. n. 3 (1899); Oates, 

 Game-B. of Ind. ii. p. 75 (1899) ; Madarasz, Termes. 

 Fiizetek, xxiii. p. 75 (1900) (Hungary); Frohawk, Field, 

 1902, p. 1405; Dubois, Syn. Av. p. 983. n. 11504 (1903). 



