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some there is a similar spot at the base of the upper mandible on each 

 side, the feathers of the head and cheeks are tinged with orange or 

 rusty, and in most there is a small spot of white on the chin. In some 

 specimens the breast and abdomen are closely blotched and mottled 

 with black or blackish brown and pale rusty buff; in others the cap and 

 back of the upper neck ai'e conspicuously darker, as in the specimen 

 before me, which has the entire breast a fulvous or soiled white, also 

 the middle of the belly, while the flanks are brown and barred with 

 fulvous." 



Bill pinkish flesh colour, sometimes with an orange tinge ; nail 

 greyish white ; irides greyish brown ; legs livid fleshy. 



Length. — 30 to 32 inches, wing 17 to 18-5, tail 6, bill at front 2*4 to 

 2-8, tarsus 3 to 3-12. 



Hah. — Sind, Afghanistan, Punjab, N, W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, 

 Rajputana, Kntch and Guzerat. Occurs throughout Eui'ope. About 

 the Munchur Lake in Sind they are met with in large parties, also 

 along the canals, and especially the river. 



Anser albifrons. The White-fronted Goose. 



Anser albifrons, Gm. ; Naum. Vogt. t. 289 ; Jerd. B. Ind. iii. 780 ; 

 Str. F. i. 259; viii. 421 ; Murray, Hdhk., ZooL, Sfc, Sind; Hume and 

 Marsh. Game B. Ind. p. 73. — The White-fkonted or Laughing 

 Goose. 



Forehead white or yellowish white, followed by a narrow dark band ; 

 chin the same; head, hind neck and nape brownish grey, 

 shaded in some specimens with reddish ; throat pale greyish white, 

 darker in some; breast and flanks pale brownish, with cross bars of 

 black ; paler and whitish on the lower breast, with broader black bars; 

 back dark greyish brown, the feathers with pale reddish brown edges ; 

 upper and under tail-coverts white ; tail with the middle feathers dark 

 grey, tipped with white; the lateral ones entirely white; primaries ashy 

 grey, dark at the tip ; secondaries bluish black ; tertiaries margined 

 with dull white ; greater and lesser wing-coverts gx-ey, edged with rufous; 



