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grey. Underparts light dingy-grey, with tinge of ochreous and darkei- 

 rounded grey centres to feathers ; ven_t and tail-coverts (upper and lower) 

 dingy-white, perhaps due to dustiness of skin. Head and neck brown, 

 with strong coffee tint." {Alphiraky.) 



Distribution. — The extent of the range of this goose has not yet 

 been definitely settled : it prohahhj occurs in Great Britain ; it 

 certainhj occurs in Hungary, Kussia, and much of Central Europe, 

 Asia Minor, and the extreme west of Asia througli to Persia. 

 Seebohm obtained it on the Yenesei, and three birds obtained b\ 

 Dr. Moore and my men in Dibrugarh were of this species. 



In vol. xvii of the Bombay N.H.S. Journal, when writing of this 

 species (p. 537), I most unfortunately twice wrote middoidorfjli 

 instead of ner/Iecfus, the former of these two, of course, not being 

 a pink-billed species. In consequence of the discussion on bean- 

 geese which arose in the Journal, I hunted up my old notes on 

 this subject, and was lucky enough to find letters from Messrs. 

 Moore and Mundy, and also my own notes. These, I think, quite 

 definitely fix the identification of the geese obtained. 



Nidiflcation. — Sushkin's Goose breeds in Xovaya Zemlya, and 

 almost certainly in Koiguev, perhaps also in the Surgai district 

 near Urkach. 



