26 WATER FOWL OF INDIA AND ASIA. 
Siberia. Then there is SUSHKIN’S GOOoSE (Anser neglectus) a form 
like the BEAN GOOSE, but with a weaker bill, and with a 
pink bar on this‘and pink feet, which might’ easily be 
confounded with the Pink-footed goose. 
The Chinese Goose. 
Cynopsis cygnoides, SALVADORI, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, 
Vol. X XVII, p. 107- 
Is a large species, bigger than the gray, with long neck, 
with smooth plumage devoid of pleating, and with a large 
bill, flatter than is usual in geese, and inclined to be swollen 
at the forehead. This bill is entirely black, and the feet 
orange, a combination not found in any other goose. The 
plumage is of a lightish brown rather than grey, with the 
usual pale edgings tothe feathers and white stern, but the most 
distinctive point about it is the dark-brown colour which 
covers the crown and runs down the back of the neck, contrasting 
sharply with the pale creamy colour of the rest of the head and 
neck. The total length of this goose is about a yard ; the bill 
is three-and-a-half inches long, shank three, and wing about a 
foot-and-a-half. 
Everyone who knows the common domestic goose of India 
and China, which is descended from this species, will recognize 
this description, but the tame bird often has a very decided knob 
on the forehead, especially in the male, and is more coarse and 
paunchy in form than the wild type, besides being often white 
or pied. The wild home of the CHINESE Goose is Eastern 
Siberia, China, and Japan, and it may be expected to occur on 
our eastern frontiers in winter sometime or other. 
Hutchins’ Goose. 
Branta hutchinsi, SALVADORI, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, 
Vol XXVily p. 114. 
Like the BRENTS, next to be dealt with, belongs to a group 
with smooth necks and dark bills and feet, like the RED- 
BREASTED GoosE. It is a rather small race of the well- 
known CANADIAN GOOSE of ornamental waters in Europe, now 
often found quite wild in Britain. It is about the size of the 
Grey-LaG, with the body-colour of a dark-brown with the usual 
light edges, the tail black, and the head and neck conspicuously 
olossy black with a white crescent on the throat, reaching up 
on the cheeks. 
