518 ANSER GRANDIS.—A. FABALIS. 
ANSER GRANDIS, Middendorff?. 
[§ 5444. One.— Sibérie.” From M. Jules Verreaux, 1873. 
Received, I believe, from Dr. Dybowski, in whose list, written in con- 
junction with Dr. Parrex, of the birds of Darasun in Dauuria, as observed in 
1866 and 1867, stands (Journ. fiir Orn, 1868, p. 338): “ Anser grandis— 
selten—wie haben die Eier gefunden.” The measurements of these from 
several nests were subsequently given (op. cit. 1878, p. 108).] 
ANSER SERRIROSTRIS, Swinhoe ex Gould. 
|§ 5445. One-—Chayachia Zaimka, Kolyma River, 4 July, 1905. 
From Mr. 8. A. Buturlin, through Mr. Dresser, 1906. 
The locality is in North-eastern Siberia, about thirty kilometres from 
Pokhodskoe. I suppose that further particulars will in due time be published. 
I know nothing as to the validity of the species. | 
ANSER FABALIS (Latham). 
BEAN-GOOSE. 
While the Grey Lag breeds in Great Britain, Central Europe, and 
even the south of Scandinavia, the north only seems to suit the 
Bean-Goose, There it goes to the most retired districts: the small 
* {It would be out of place here to discuss (even if I had the means of discussing) 
the question whether the Anser grandis of Dr. yon Middendorff (Sib. Reise, II. ii. 
p. 225, tab. xx. fig. 1) is or is not-the species to which, following J. F. Gmelin, 
Pallas applied the name. The last says (Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 221) that he 
never saw a specimen, and gives it on the authority of 8. G. Gmelin and Steller, 
just as he had originally communicated the diagnosis to Pennant, who first 
published it in 1785 (Arct. Zool. ii. p. 570). In 1873, Dr. Severtzoy (Turkestan- 
skie Jevotnie, p. 149)—as translated by Mr. Craemers for Mr. Dresser (Ibis, 1876, 
p. 416)—named Middendorff’s bird A. middendorffi, stating that Prof. Brandt had 
considered the original A. grandis to be a large form of A. cygnoides; but it dees not 
appear that the latter ever hiunself published his opinion or the grounds of it, and 
here I must leave the matter, confident only that Dr. Dybowski believed his 
’ A. grandis to be the same as Middendorff’s.—Ep. | 
