92. THE SMALL WHITE- 

 FRONTED GOOSE. 



Anser erythropus, Linnaeus. 



Outer primaries grey, tipped with black- 

 ish ; inner primaries and outer 

 secondaries uniformly blackish ; all 

 with white shafts. 



Upper tail-coverts white. 



Axillaries dark ashy. 



Bill of a pale colour, without any black, 

 and measuring about 1*3 from the 

 forehead straight to the tip of the 

 nail of the upper mandible. 



Rump dark brown or blackish. 



Sexes alike. 

 Vernacular Names :— None known. 



There are few authenticated instances of 

 the occurrence of the Small White- 

 fronted, or Dwarf, Goose in India. 

 Colonel Irby, Dr. Bonavia, and Mr. A. 

 Anderson met with this species in the 

 province of Oudh, and a specimen now 

 in the British Museum, from the Hume 

 Collection, marked " Oudh," is probably 

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