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Messrs. Hume and Marshall inform us that 

 it has been found in the Ganges and 

 Jumna in the Saharanpur and Moozuffer- 

 nugger districts. Mr. G. Reid records 

 it from Lucknow, and Mr. Hume had a 

 specimen which was killed a few miles 

 south of that place. Colonel Graham 

 is our authority for the statement that 

 this Goose occurs right up the valley 

 of Assam. Capt. F. T. Williams very 

 kindly sent me a photograph of a speci- 

 men of this Goose, which he shot on the 

 Chindwin river on the 27th November, 

 1896. Lastly, Major G. Rippon writes 

 to me that he was informed that some 

 officers of the 4th Burma Battalion had 

 shot this species on the lake at Fort 

 Stedman, in the Southern Shan States. 



In the summer, this Goose is found in 

 high northern latitudes from Greenland 

 to Eastern Siberia. In the winter, it 

 migrates as far south as the Mediterranean, 

 North-East Africa, the Caspian Sea, India 

 and China. 



Very little has been written on the 

 habits of this Goose. The late Mr. 

 Seebohm, who did not however separate 

 this species from its relative, the Small 

 White-fronted Goose, says :^" The notes 

 of the White-fronted Goose are somewhat 



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