BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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about twenty-seven inches. The young show no white at 

 the base of the bill. 



Xeeeer Wbite^fronteb (Boose. 



THE Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons minutus, 

 Naumann) is an exceedingly rare autumn and winter 

 migrant to the British Islands. It inhabits Arctic Russia and 

 Siberia, and in autumn migrates southward. The adult 

 male closely resembles Anser albifrons^ but is much smaller, 

 shows more white on the forehead, and the plumage is darker ; 

 irides, brown ; bill, whitish-pink ; nail, horn colour ; legs, 

 toes, and webs, yellow. Length, about twenty inches. 



