ANSER INDICUS 101 



(18) ANSER INDICUS. 



THE BAE-HEADED GOOSE. 



Anas indica, LaUi. lad. Oni. ii, p. 839 (1790). 



Anser indicus, Jcnlon, B. of I. iii, p. 782 ; Hume, Xe.sts and Eyj-s. 



p. 636; Butler, S. F. iv, pp. 27, 40 and 99; id. ibid, vi, p. 2G0 ; 



Adams, iliid. p. 401; Hume, ibid, vii, p. 491; Hume (('■ Marsh. 



Game-B. iii, p. 81 ; Hume, Nests and Efjijs (Gates' ed.), iii, p. 27'.l ; 



Oates, Game-B. ii, p. 57 ; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xxvii, p. 105 ; Stiiarl 



Baker, J. B. N. H. S. xi, p. 362 ; id. ibid., Indian Ducks, p. 84 (1908) ; 



Hopwood, J. B. N. H. S. xviii. p. 433 (1908) ; Harimjton, ibid, xix, 



p. 312 (1909) ; Bailey, ibid. p. 367 (1902) ; Perreaii, ibid. p. 901 



(1910) ; Whitehead, ibid, xx, p. 980 (1911) ; id. ibid, xxi, p. 158 



(1911) ; Bailey, ibid. p. 181 ; Hariiiijton, ibid. p. 1088 (1912) ; 

 Osmaston, ibid, xxii, p. 548 (1913) ; Ciirrie, ibid, xxiv, p. 576 (1916) ; 

 Inglis. ibid. p. 600; Whistler, ibid, xxvi, p. 190 (1918). 



Eulabeia indicus, Ball, S. F. iii, p. 436. 



Eulabeia indica, Alpheraky, Geese, p. 133. 



Adult. — " Head wliite, witli two horse-shoe blackish bars on tlie occiput 

 and nape ; hind neck brown-black ; a longitudinal white band on the sides of 

 the neck ; upper plumage very pale-ashy, the feathers edged with whitish 

 and tinged with brown on the mantle and scapulars ; sides of the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts whitish ; throat white, fore-neck brownish-ashy, passing 

 gradually into cinereous on the breast, whitish on the abdomen ; vent and 

 under tail-coverts white ; feathers of the flanks brown, rufous towards the 

 tips with pale edgings ; quills grey, dusky towards the tips, and gradualh- 

 becoming darker towards the secondaries ; tertials brownish-grey ; tail grey, 

 white-tipped. 



" Total length 27 inches, wing 17, tail 6, bill 2, tarsus 2'75." 

 (Salvadori.) 



"Length 27'25 to 33'5 inches, expanse 50 to 60, wing 16'0 to 19'0, tail 

 from vent 5'0 to 7'0, tarsus 2'5 to 3'3, bill fi-om gape 1'8 to 2'3. Weight 

 4 lbs. to 6 lbs. 14 ozs." (Hume.) 



" The legs and feet are light orange, sometimes paler, occasionally onh' 

 yellow ; claws horny-black ; the irides deep-brown ; the bill orange-yellow to 

 orange, rarely only pale lemon-yellow, often paler or greenish towards the 

 nostril ; the nail black or blackish." {Hmnc.) 



Young " Forehead brownish-white, a little tinged with rusty ; a dusky 



