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head, and is comparatively large; 6. hutehinsi is a smaller and 
more Arctic form, B. minima and BP. occidentalis north-western 
races of the same. JB. ruficollis, the Red-breasted Goose of West 
Siberia, which migrates southwards, strays to Britain, and is por- 
trayed in the paintings of Egypt, is black, with white loral patch, 
rump, sides and belly, the ear-coverts, fore-neck, and chest are 
chestnut outhned by white, and the two wing-bands are grey. 
Philacte canagica, the Emperor Goose of North-East Asia and 
North-West America, is blue-grey with black and white bars, the 
head and nape being white tinted with orange, the throat brownish, 
the bill purplish-blue with white nail, and the feet orange. 
Cycnopsis cycnoides, the Chinese Goose of East Asia, is mainly 
grey-brown above and whitish below, with rufous edges to the 
feathers; the head and neck are white with a brown band down 
the crown and nape; the bill is black, or in the domesticated 
form red with a frontal knob; the feet are orange. 
Anser cinereus, the Grey-Lag, which nests in North Scotland 
and as far south as Spain and Kashgaria, ranges from Iceland 
to China, the Eastern race being called 4. rubrirostris ; A. albi- 
frons, the White-fronted Goose, is found in Britain and most 
Palaearctic countries in winter, and chiefly eastward of Norway 
in summer; A. segetum, the Bean Goose, another of our hibernal 
visitants, breeds from Scandinavia to Amurland, and migrates 
southward to Madeira, North Africa, China, and Japan; A. brachy- 
rhynchus, the Pink-footed Goose, extends over North Europe, 
and is common with us in the cold season; 4A. indicus inhabits 
Central Asia and North India. A. middendorffi (grandis) of East 
Siberia is a large form of the Bean Goose; while the small A. 
erythropus, once shot in Britain, has a similar range to the White- 
fronted Goose, of which both it and the big A. gambeli of North 
America may be considered sub-species. The general coloration 
in this genus is grey-brown; in the Grey-Lag the bill and 
feet are flesh-coloured with white nail, m the White-fronted Goose 
orange, the latter having a white forehead and white breast 
with black bars. In the Bean and Pink-footed Geese the nail is 
black, but the bill and feet are orange-and-black and pink 
respectively. 4. indicus is lighter, with brown hind-neck, and 
two black crescents on the back of the white head. All these 
“ Grey Geese ” feed chiefly by day among green corn, stubble, peas, 
beans or clover, retiring at night to sand-banks or mud-flats in 
