174 ANSERID^. 



214. Anser erythropUS {Linn.), Neivton, Ibis, 2, p. 406; yerd., 

 B. Ind. iii. p. 7S1 ; Htane and Marsh., Game Birds iii. p. 77 ; id.,Avif. Brit- 

 hid. ii. p. 675, No. 1377. A. minutus, Naum. Vogi, i. ?— The Dwarf 

 Goose. 



Top of head, forehead, throat, front of cheets and the under and upper tail 

 coverts white; rest of head, neck and crop grey; scapulars and back dark 

 brown grey, with transverse lighter bands ; primaries and upper wing coverts 

 blue grey, lower the same as the back and edged with white ; secondaries 

 black ; tail grey, margined with white at the tip and white at the base ; abdo- 

 men black, bordered with white; flanks dark grey brown, each feather ?;^ff/-^z>zf</ 

 lighter. Bill orange; feet and legs red. {jferd.) 



Length. — 22 inches; wing 15 ; tail 4-5 



Hab. N.-W. Provinces and Oudh as a rare winter visitor. Outside oui 



limits it is found in Northern and Central Europe. 



215. Anser indiCUS {Lath.), Gould, C. B. pi. 80 ; Jerd., B. Ind. 

 iii. p. 782 ; Str. F. iv. p. 499 ; vii. p. 491 ; ^'iii P- 421 ; 3Iurray, LIdbk., Zool., 

 ^•c, Sind, p. 234; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds, Ind. p. 81 ; Murray, Vert- 

 Zool, Sind, p. 285; id., Avif Bril. Ind. ii. p. 675, No. 1378, {Raj-hans, 

 Hind, Sind).— The B.\rred-heaued Goose. 



Head and a broad line continued down the sides of the neck white, with a 

 broad black band from behind the eye across the occiput, and a second one 

 on the nape ; chin and throat white ; back of neck dark hair brown; front of 

 neck the same, but rather paler and gradually passing into the ashy grey of 

 the breast ; upper back, scapulars, breast, upper abdomen and flanks in front 

 ashy grey, the feathers margined with white and forming lunules of that 

 colour; lower back, rump and wing coverts pale ashy grey; upper tail coverts, 

 tip of tail feathers, lower abdomen, vent and under tail cherts white ; axillaries 

 pure ashy grev, feathers of the flanks behind the legs dark rufescent or snuff 

 brown, margined at the tip wiih white ; primaries white-shafted, the first four 

 and all the primary coverts greyish, the rest and the tips of the first four as 

 well as all the secondaries dark brown ; wing coverts like the lower back and 

 rump ; bill orange, with a greenish tinge at the base; nail at the tip black; legs 

 bright orange ; bill at front r8 to 2. 



Length.— 2^ to 28 inches ; wing 16-5 to 18-5 ; tarsus 2-8. 



Hab.—'S>\nd, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Oudh, Central Provinces, and Ben- 

 gal. A winter visitant. 



This is certainly the most abundant Goose in Sind, and during the winter 

 may be met in flocks of thousands on the large lakes, and on the Indus. On 

 the Munchur it simply swarms, and not unlike the two other species, alhifrons 

 and cinereus, feeds during the night and in the early morning till about 9 or lO 



