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be hardly sufficiently distinct from our bird to rank 
asa full species ; itis merely larger, with a bigger bill. 
It breeds in high northern latitudes, migrating in 
winter to the coasts of the Mediterranean, Egypt, the 
Caspian Sea, Northern India, China and Japan. Irs 
said to be found in Assam, and has been shot in Upper 
Burma. In America it reaches Mexico and Cuba in 
winter. With us it is a rare bird, visiting, in the cold 
weather, the Punjab, Sind, Cutch, Rohilkhand and 
Oudh, where it is usually found on rivers, singly or in 
very small parties of two or three birds. The note 
of this Goose resembles a laugh, whence it is some- 
times called the Laughing Goose. 
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The Dwarf Goose. 
Anser erythropus, BLANFORD, Faun. Brit. Ind., 
Birds, Vol ly pr ars: 
VERNACULAR NAMES.—None known. 
This little Goose, which, as I said above,.is only 
about as big as a large tame Duck, is very like the 
White-fronted ; it has, however, proportionately longer 
wings and a smaller bill, is darker in colour (thus 
being the darkest of all our Geese), and has the white 
patch on the forehead in the form of a longitudinal 
‘“blaze’’ or broad streak, running up from the bill to 
the level of a line drawn between the eyes. The bill 
is pink or flesh-coloured (with no black), and the 
legs orange. The bill may apparently be sometimes 
orange or yellow. The eyelids are edged with lemon- 
yellow, and hence very conspicuous. Young birds, 
hke the young of the White-fronted Goose, have no 
white on the head or black on the belly. 
The length is about twenty-one inches, wing about 
fourteen, shank about two and-a-half, bill one and-a- 
half; The wings are thus proportionally much 
