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edges ; sides, flanks, and thighs, grey, broadly tipped with 

 pale brown ; vent, under tail-coverts, and under surface of 

 the tail-feathers white ; legs, toes, and membranes pink, 

 tinged with vermilion ; the claws black ; the hind toe short ; 

 the membranes of the feet thick and fleshy. 



The whole length of the adult is about twenty-eight inches. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the second quill -feather, 

 which is rather the longest in the wing, seventeen inches and 

 a half; the carpal joint of the wing furnished with the usual 

 hard knob ; the wings when closed reach an inch or more 

 beyond the end of the tail. 



The Bar-headed Goose {Ansei' indicus) is a recently- 

 introduced species, a native of Central Asia and Northern 

 India, which has occasionally escaped from confinement. 

 An example, shot on the banks of the Dee, below Chester, 

 was recorded by Mr. Mather (Zool. p. 5988). 



