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a specimen on November i2th, 1896. 

 This place is so remote from the ordinary 

 winter quarters of the Pink-footed Goose, 

 that it serves to strengthen the suspicion 

 that the Indian visitors of this type of 

 Goose niay well be some separate race 

 from Central Asia or China. 



The summer quarters of the Pink-footed 

 Goose are Spitsbergen, Iceland, and prob- 

 ably Franz Josef Land. In winter it 

 migrates to Western Europe, and is found 

 in Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, 

 Holland, and France. Its occurrence, 

 therefore, in India must be looked upon 

 as most extraordinary. 



Writing of the habits of this Goose in 

 England, Seebohm says : " During their 

 stay in this country in winter, the flocks 

 of Pink-footed Geese spend most of 

 the day feeding on the stubbles and in 

 the winter corn. They are of course 

 much persecuted, and have become very 

 wary ; as soon as it begins to get dark 

 they leave their feeding-grounds and retire 

 to the nearest sandbank on the coast; 

 but as soon as the moon rises, they seem 

 to think themselves safe again, and return 

 to the fields, where they remain until the 

 moon sets, and the darkness warns them 

 to seek safety again on their favourite 



