95. THE PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 



Anser brachyrhynchus^ Baillon. 



Outer primaries grey, tipped with 

 blackish ; inner primaries and outer 

 secondaries uniformly blackish; all 

 with white shafts. 



Upper tail-coverts white. 



Axillaries dark ashy. 



Bill black, with a pale band across 

 both mandibles, between the nail and 

 the nostrils, and measuring about 17 

 from the forehead straight to the tip 

 of the nail of the upper mandible. 

 Sexes alike. 



Vernacular Names :— None known. 



The occurrence of the Pink-footed Goose 

 in India, up to recently, rested on evi- 

 dence which could not altogether be 

 looked upon as perfectly satisfactory, in 

 view of the fact that there are so many 

 Geese of the same type as the Bean- 

 Goose, and all equally likely to visit 

 India, as stragglers from the north. 



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