86 INDIAN DUCKS 



called them A/iser erythropus, but gave their dimensions as those of 

 small A. alhlfrons, viz., with wings irom 15 to 15'75 inches. It is 

 probable, in fact almost certain, however, that many occur which 

 are not distinguished by sportsmen from other geese, and are thus 

 never recorded. 



Lieutenant C. D. Lester records shooting three White-Fronted 

 Geese on the 14th February, lf->90, at a place called Deviria near 

 Anjar in Cutch. 



Hume, writing of these birds in ' Stray Feathers,' said he twice 

 .srt/r them, once on the Jhelum and once on the Indus; on the first 

 occasion there were three birds, and on the second only two, and 

 they were quite by themselves, not associating with other geese as 

 one would have expected to see. 



Captain E. E. Forbes shot one out of a gaggle of five, three or 

 four miles from Cawnpore, on the Ganges, on the 'Joth January. 190s. 



Colonel Graham says that this goose is found in Assam. Oates 

 had the photograph of one sent him which had been shot on the 

 Chindwiu river by Captam Williams on the 'iTth November, IHUO, 

 and was also informed by Major lUppon that it had been shot on 

 the lake at Fort Stedman in the Southern Shan States. 



It is not a rare bird in Great Jjritain, but has only twice been 

 recorded from Heligoland in the last century. 



Prior to the recent records by Oates, nothing was known of this 

 goose being obtained anywhere to the east of the Indian Empire, 

 though there seems to be no reason why it should not fairly often 

 enter both Assam and Northern Burma. Probably, however, it 

 remains for the western sportsmen to say whether it is comparatively 

 common or not, and it is to be hoped that sportsmen will go in more 

 regularly for making notes of the varieties they shoot and recording 

 them for the benefit of others. 



Nidiflcation. — Mr. Pearson ('Ibis,' 1S9G, p. '221) shot an Anscr 

 albifrona on July 24th in Novaya Zemblya, and reports that the birds 

 were moulting, so, presumably, they were also breeding there ; and 

 according to Alpheraky "they had bred here in large numbers," and 

 " in limited numbers in Finmark." The former author and his 

 brother obtained this goose in the Philippine Islands. 



Mr. L. Popham found it breeding on the Yenisei river, but says 



