92. THE SMALL WHITE- 

 FRONTED GOOSE. 



Anser erythropus^ LINNAEUS. 



Outer primaries grey, tipped with black- 

 ish ; inner primaries and outer 

 secondaries uniformly blackish ; all 

 with white shafts. 



Upper tail-coverts white. 



Axillaries dark ashy. 



Bill of a pale colour, without any black, 

 and measuring about i'3 from the 

 forehead straight to the tip of the 

 nail of the upper mandible. 



Rump dark brown or blackish. 



Sexes alike. 

 VERNACULAR NAMES : None known. 



THERE are few authenticated instances of 

 the occurrence of the Small White- 

 fronted, or Dwarf, Goose in India. 

 Colonel Irby, Dr. Bonavia, and Mr. A. 

 Anderson met with this species in the 

 province of Oudh, and a specimen now 

 in the British Museum, from the Hume 

 Collection, marked " Oudh," is probably 



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