ANSER. 675 



rlmaries ashy grey, dark at the tip ; secondaries bluish black ; tertiaries mar- 

 gined with dull white ; greater and lesser wing coverts grey, edged with rufous ; 

 lomen white ; bill livid fleshy or purplish red, the middle of the upper man- 

 lible with an orange tinge ; nail at tip white or yellowish white ; legs and feet 



ige. 

 Length* 17 to 28 inches; wing 16 to 17; bill at front 17 to 1-9; tarsus 3. 



Sad. Sind, Beloochistan (Quetta), Persian Gulf (Bussorah), Afghanistan 

 (Arghandab), Punjab, N.-W. Provinces and Oudh. 



In Sind the White-fronted Goose is much more rare than the Grey Lag. Mr. 

 Hume says "that about one bird of this species visits this empire, for every 

 thousand of Grey Lags, or every five thousand of the Barred-headed Geese." 

 In Egypt it is most abundant, also at Fao in Mesopotamia, and on the Caspian. 



1377. Anser erythropus (*><.), Newton, Ibis, 2, p. 406; Jerd., 



B. Ind. iii. p. 781 ; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds iii. p. 77. A. minutus, 

 Naum. Vogt, i. ? The DWARF GOOSE. 



Top of head, forehead, throat, front of cheeks and the tinder and upper tail 

 coverts white ; rest of head, neck and crop grey ; scapulars and back dark 

 brown grey, with transverse lighter bands ; primaries and upper wing coverts 

 blue grey, lower the same as the back and edged with white ; secondaries 

 black ; tail grey, margined with white at the tip and white at the base ; abdo- 

 men black, bordered with white ; flanks dark grey brown, each feather margined 

 lighter. Bill orange; feet and legs red. (Jerd) 



Length. 22 inches; wing 15 ; tail 4-5 



Hab. N.-W. Provinces and Oudh as a rare winter visitor. Outside our 

 limits it is found in Northern and Central Europe. 



1378. Anser indiCUS (Lath.), Gould, C. B. pi. 80 ; Jerd., B. 2nd. 

 iii. p. 782 ; Sir. F. iv. p. 499 ; vii. p. 491 ; viii p. 421 j Murray, Hdbk., ZooL, 

 $r., Sind, p. 234; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds, Ind. p. 8 1 ; Murray, Vert. 

 Zool n Sind, p. 285. (Raj-hans, Hind, Sind). The BARRED-HEADED GOOSE. 



Head and a broad line continued down the sides of the neck white, with a 

 broad black band from behind the eye across the occiput, and a second one 

 on the nape ; chin and throat white ; back of neck dark hair brown ; front of 

 neck the same, but rather paler and gradually passing into the ashy grey of 

 the breast ; upper back, scapulars, breast, upper abdomen and flanks in front 

 ashy grey, the feathers margined with white and forming lunules of that 

 colour ; lower back, rump and wing coverts pale ashy grey ; upper tail coverts, 

 tip of tail feathers, lower abdomen, vent and under tail coverts white ; axillaries 

 pure ashy grey, feathers of the flanks behind the legs dark rufescent or snuff 

 brown, margined at the tip with white ; primaries white-shafted, the first four 

 and all the primary coverts greyish, the rest and the tips of the first four as 



