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axillaries, and upper tail-coverts of the 

 same colour as the True Geese, and the 

 general colour of the plumage is the same. 

 It has the hindneck and the crown of 

 the head a pale chocolate-brown, and the 

 remainder of the head and neck more 

 or less white. The bill is very large, 

 measuring 375 from the edge of the fore- 

 head straight to the tip of the upper 

 mandible. 



Quite different from the True Geese is 

 the Red-breasted Goose (Branta rufi- 

 collis\ which has very probably occurred 

 in India, as suggested by Blyth. It has 

 the primaries and axillaries black ; the 

 upper tail-coverts white. It is a small 

 Goose, measuring about 21 inches in 

 length, and the bill is not more than i 

 inch in length. The above characters are 

 alone sufficient to enable any one to 

 separate this Goose from all the other 

 Geese and Ducks of India. Both sexes, 

 when adult, have the head and neck 

 beautifully variegated with white, black, 

 and chestnut, and the breast of the last 

 colour. It occurs in Siberia, in Turkestan 

 and on the Caspian Sea. 



