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announced, by Blyth, Irby, Hume, and McLeod ; but as no Indian 

 specimen appears to have been preserved, some doubts must remain 

 as to whether the species has been rightly identified, especially as 

 A., brachyrhynchus has not been observed elsewhere in Asia. 

 There can however, I think, be no reasonable doubt that either this 

 or some other species of the group of A. segetum with a black tip 

 to the bill does occur. 



1583. Anser indicus. The Barred-headed Goose. 



Anas indica, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii, p. 839 (1790). 



Bernicla indica, Gray, Gen. B. iii, p. 608 ; Blyth, Cat. p. 301. 



Anser indicus, Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 782 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. 



xxxvii, pt. 2, p. 70 ; McMaster, J. A. S. B. xl, pt. 2, p. 215 ; 



Hume, S. F. i, p. 260 ; Adam, ibid. p. 401 ; Godiv.-Aust. J. A. S. B. 



xliii, pt. 2, p. 175 ; Hume, S. F. iv, p. 499 ; Anders. Yunnan 



Exped., Aves, p. 698 ; Cripps, S. F. vii, p. 310 ; Hume, ibid. p. 491 ; 



id. Cat. no. 949 ; id. S. F. viii, p. 421 ; Hume # Marsh. Game B. 



iii, p. 81, pi. ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 99 ; Reid, 8. F. x, p. 79 ; 



Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 395 ; Taylor, S. F. x, pp. 528, 531 ; Hume, 



S. F. xi, p. 340 ; Gates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 279 ; 



Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xxvii, p. 105. 

 Eulabeia indica, Reichenb. Naturl. Syst. Vb'gel, p. ix ; Ball, S. F. ii, 



p. 436; vii, p. 231. 



Hans, Kareyi Hans, Rdj Hans, JBirwa, H.; Paria, Nepal Terai ; Nang- 

 pa, Ladak; Nir-bathu, Tarn. (Coimbatore); Badi-hdns, Chittagong Kdng- 

 nai, Manipur. 



Fig. 102. Head of A. indicus. 



Coloration. Head white, with two concentric black bars on the 

 nape, one from eye to eye round the occiput, the other farther 

 hack ; a longitudinal white band down each side of the neck ; hind 

 neck dark brown, passing into the pale ashy tint of the upper plu- 

 mage generally, feathers of the upper back and scapulars with pale 

 tips ; lower back and rump pure ashy grey ; primaries pale ashy 

 with blackish tips, later primaries and secondaries black except at 

 the extreme base : tertiaries and coverts, both upper and under, 

 pale ashy, the greater coverts broadly edged with white ; fore 

 neck brownish ashy, passing gradually into whity-brown on the 

 breast ; sides of breast browner, darkest on the flanks, the feathers 

 pale-tipped, forming bars; lower abdomen and flanks and under 

 and upper tail-coverts pure white ; tail-feathers pale grey, white- 

 edged. 



Young birds have a dark brown crown and nape, no black bars 

 on the nape, nor longitudinal white neck-stripes ; the back is grey, 

 :and the lower parts are nearly white. 



