The True Geese. 75 



mistake may have been made about it. 

 The bill is slender, measuring from 2'i 

 to 2'6 in length, and '3 to '35 in the 

 depth of the lower mandible. The wing 

 measures from 17 to rather more than 18. 

 The band across the bill is orange, and 

 so are the feet. It extends east to the 

 Yenesei river. 



Anser neglectus, Sushkin. This recently 

 described species can hardly be distin- 

 guished from A. fabalis, except by the 

 colour of the bill and legs, and such char- 

 acters require to be recorded immediately 

 the bird is shot, if they are to be of any 

 service, for in dry skins the bill and feet 

 of the two species are quite alike. In A. 

 neglectitS) the band across the bill is of a 

 bright rosy pink and the legs and feet 

 are flesh-coloured. It is a slender-billed 

 species, the depth of the lower mandible 

 being but "25 in the only specimen I have 

 been able to examine, an adult male. The 

 length of the bill is 2*4, and of the wing 

 18*5. This Goose was first discovered in 

 the Ufa Government, in Eastern Russia. 

 It will be noticed that the colour of the 

 bill and legs in this species corresponds 

 closely with the colour of the same parts 

 in the Pink-footed Goose, but the two 

 species differ greatly in size. 



