ANSER. 171 



This species was obtained on the Munchur Lake during an unusually severe 

 winter in Sind, by Mr. H. E, Watson, Deputy Collector of Sehwan, shortly 

 after I left the Lake in the same year (1878). In every instance, where the 

 species has occurred, it was during an unusually severe winter. Mr. Hume, 

 in his Game Birds, says — " It may be considered a pretty regular, though 

 somewhat rare, cold weather visitant to the Peshawar and Hazara Districts, 

 and an occasional straggler to the Kohat and Rawul Pindee Districts, and to 

 the Trans-Indus portions of Sind. 



It has occurred near Peshawar in 1857. In 1871, Captain Unwin obtained 

 a specimen in the Rawul Pindee District. Dr. Stolickza in J. A. S. B., 1872, 

 p. 229, says — "While crossing the Runn of Cutch he noticed several swans 

 but at too great a distance for it to be possible to form an idea as to the species 

 the birds belonged to," " and from its occurrence in Sind," Mr. Hume says, 

 "renders it not improbable that Dr. Stolickza was right." 



Outside our limits this species has been seen in the Kabul river, near Jellala- 

 bad, and is known to visit Northern Afghanistan pretty regularly. Breeds in 

 Western Turkistan. 



Mr. Hume in his Tentative List and in Sir. F. vii. pp. 107, 464, enters 

 Cygnus Betvicki, in the List of the Birds of India, but as this entry as well as of 

 CijgJius 7nusicus and Anser segetum have been made on certain drawings by 

 Hodgson and others, and there are no veritable records of their havino- been 

 killed within our limits, I omit them from the Avifauna. 



Family, ANSERID^. 



Bill moderate, narrower in front than behind ; keel elevated at the base, 

 sloping to the tip ; nail at point of bill horny and hard ; legs moderate ; knee 

 bare; hind toe partially lobed; laminar teeth present, 



Sub-Family ANSERINE. 



Characters same as those of the Family. 



Gen. Kn^Qi^.—Briss. 



Bill high at the base, rather long ; lamina at edge wide and visible exter- 

 nally ; nostrils in the nude cere, longitudinal. 



211. Anser cinereus, i^^'^r, A^««w. F<?^/. t. 285; Gould, B. Eur. 



pi- 347; y^''^-, B. Lid. iii. p. 779; S^r. F. i. p. 258; iv. pp. 26, 197; vii. 

 p. 494; viii. p. 421 ; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds of Ind. iii. p. 55 ; 

 Murray, Hdbk., ZooL, ^-c, Si7id, p. 233; id.. Vert. ZooL, Si7id, p. 283; 

 id., Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 673, No. 1374. (Hans, Sind.) — The Grey Lag 

 Goose. 



Head, hind neck and nape greyish brown, the feathers of the latter slightly 

 darker and forming a conspicuous line on the neck behind, in some uniform 



