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but I merely wish to show that these 

 Geese are not quite the birds to be iden- 

 tified hastily by sportsmen, or even by 

 good naturalists, without great care. 



Fortunately, we have now excellent 

 authority for admitting the Pink-footed 

 Goose into the Indian list. Mr. E. C. 

 Stuart Baker, in his admirable series of 

 papers on the Indian Ducks in the 

 Journal of the Bombay Natural History 

 Society, informs us that he procured a 

 specimen of this Goose in Cachar, and his 

 remarks and measurements fully sustain 

 his identification of the species. The 

 only question which now remains to be 

 cleared up is whether the Pink-footed 

 Goose w^hich visits India is quite the 

 same bird that inhabits Western Europe, 

 or whether it may not be a race which 

 differs from it in a somewhat similar 

 manner that the Chinese Bean-Goose 

 differs from the European Bean-Goose, 

 namely, in the size of the bill or in the 

 colour of the bill and legs. 



To the Hst of the occurrences of a Pink- 

 footed Goose within the Hmits of the 

 Indian Empire must be added its occur- 

 rence at Fort Stedman, in the Southern 

 Shan States, where my friend Colonel 

 E. S. Hastings informs me he procured 



