172 ANSERID^. 



grey brown ; chin, throat and breast on the upper part pale greyish brown ; 

 the breast below whitish, and barred on the sides with greyish; back and 

 scapulars brown, the feathers margined at the tips with fulvous white, forming 

 regular bars ; greater wing coverts greyish brown, lesser slightly paler, both 

 bordered with whitish ; primaries white-shafted, the first three pale grey, the 

 rest nearly dark brown; tail greyish, tipped with white. The plumage of this 

 Goose is very variable. Of specimens I have, no two are alike. Mr. Hume 

 also notices this fact and says — " In some the head and neck vary from pale 

 ashy or earthy brown to dark clove brown ; in most there is a mingled white 

 and orange patch on the forehead ; in some there is a similar spot at the base 

 of the upper mandible on each side, the feathers of the head and cheeks are 

 tinged with orange or rusty, and in most there is a small spot of white on the 

 chin. In some specimens the breast and abdomen are closely blotched and 

 mottled with black or blackish brown and pale rusty buff ; in others the 

 cap and back of the upper neck are conspicuously darker, as in the speci- 

 men before me, which has the entire breast a fulvous or soiled white, 

 also the middle of the belly, while the flanks are brown and barred with 

 fulvous." 



Bill pinkish flesh colour, sometimes with an orange tinge ; nail greyish 

 white ; irides greyish brown ; legs livid fleshy. 



Length. — 30 to 32 inches ; wing 17 to 18-5 ; tail 6 ; bill at front 2-4 to 2-8 ; 

 tarsus 3 to 3' 12. 



.Fa(5.— Sind, Afghanistan, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Raj- 

 putna, Kutch and Guzerat. Occurs throughout Europe. About the INIunchur 

 Lake in Sind they are met with in large parties, also along the canals, and 

 especially the river. 



212. Anser brachyrrhynclius {Bailion), Jerd., B. Lid. iii. 



p 780; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds \\\. p. 71; id.^ Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. 

 p. 673, No. 1375. — The PiNK-FooTED Goose. 



Head and upper part of neck brown; lower part of neck reddish ashy; 

 body above brownish cinereous with white undulations ; longest scapulars 

 edged with white ; upper tail coverts black ; lesser and median coverts bluish 

 ashy, edged with white ; two first primaries bluish, others black ; tail black ; 

 breast and upper abdomen ashy whitish ; lower abdomen and under tail 

 coverts pure white. Bill much smaller than in the last, fleshy red or purplish, 

 the base and the nail black ; feet pinkish red. {^jferd.') 



Length. — 27 to 29 inches; wing 15-9 to 17; tail 5-5; bill at front 175; 

 tarsus 3 ; middle toe 3. 



Hab. — This is an extremely rare bird in India. Hume records a picture of one 

 which was got in the Punjab, and also a statement that Colonel Irby killed 

 one at Alumbagh near Lucknow. He has seen a pair among Grey Lags on a 



