146 ANATID.E. 



in Italy and Corfti. Said to be found in Northern Asia, 

 China, and Japan. 



The beak is of a pink flesh colour, the horny nail at the 

 extremity of each mandible white ; the irides brown ; the 

 head, nape, back of the neck, and the upper part of the 

 back, ash-brown, the latter named part with lighter co- 

 loured edges; inner portion of the wings, scapulars, and 

 tertials lead-grey, with broad and lighter grey coloured 

 margins ; the point of the wing, both sets of upper wing- 

 coverts, and all the feathers on the primary portion of the 

 wing, except the quill-feathers beyond the first three, very 

 light bluish-grey ; the three outer quill-feathers also light 

 grey ; the rest dark lead grey, all with white shafts ; the 

 lower part of the back and the rump uniform light bluish- 

 grey ; upper tail-coverts white ; tail-feathers lead-grey, 

 tipped with white ; chin, neck in front, and the breast, of 

 a lighter grey colour than the back of the neck ; the belly, 

 and all the under surface of the body, white ; sides, flanks, 

 and thighs, barred with ash colour and greyish white ; 

 under tail-coverts, and the under surface of the tail-fea- 

 thers, white ; legs, toes, and membranes, dull flesh colour ; 

 the claws black. 



The whole length of an adult male thirty-five inches ; 

 the wing, from the carpal joint to the end of the second 

 quill-feather, which is the longest, seventeen inches and a 

 half; the wings when closed scarcely reaching to the end 

 of the tail. Both males and females have a hard callous 

 knob at the point of the wing, which varies in size in the 

 different species of Geese. The males in this genus are 

 larger than the females. An adult female measured thirty 

 inches in the whole length, and sixteen inches in the wing. 

 Mr. Bartlett, who has paid great attention to the plumage 

 of these birds, says, the young of this species are darker 



