590 ANSER 



yellow. Culmen 2 35, wing 16'9, tail 5'7, tarsus 2'8 inch. Female similar 

 but somewhat smaller. This species varies considerably in size in both 

 sexes. 



Hcib. Europe generally, from Lapland and Novaya Zemlya 

 down to North Africa in winter, and has occurred in Madeira ; 

 Asia east to western Siberia ; does not occur in India. 



In habits it does not differ from its allies, but it affects 

 inland localities more especially, even when frequenting the 

 coasts, flying far inland to feed. Its food consists of tender 

 grass-shoots, grain, and tender roots of various kinds of grass, 

 and it appears to feed chiefly at early dawn. It breeds like 

 A. ffrus, usually in damp localities, in the north of Sweden, 

 Finland, and Russia, but not in Great Britain, depositing early 

 in June 5 to 6 eggs, which resemble those of A. ferus but are 

 smaller and somewhat smoother in texture of shell. 



822. SUBSP. ANSEK MIDDENDORFFI. 



A. grandis, Midd. Sib. Keise, ii. p. 225, Tab. xx. 3 fig. 1 (1851 nee. 

 Gmel.) ; A. middendorjfi, Severtzoff, Turk. Jevot. pp. 70, 149 (1873); 

 Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 1098 ; Salvador!, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxvii. p. 102. 



Hishikui, Jap. 



$ ad. (N. Siberia). Differs from A.fabalis in being larger, with con- 

 spicuously larger beak and feet, and in having the head and neck bumsh 

 brown. Culmen 3'15, wing 19'8, tail 5'67, tarsus 3'31. 



Hcib. Eastern Siberia, wintering in China and Japan. Does 

 not differ from A. falalis in habits or nidification. 



823. PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 

 ANSER BRACHYRHYNCHUS. 



Anser brachyrhynchus, Baill. Mem. Soc. K. d'Abbev. 1833, p. 74 ; 

 Hewitson, ii. p. 386, pi. cviii. fig. 1 ; Gould, B. of Gt. Brit. v. 

 pi. 31 ; Dresser, vi. p. p. 369, pi. 413 ; Salvador!, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 xxvii. p. 103 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. p. 418 ; Saunders, 

 p. 403 ; Lilford, vii. p. 63, pi. 23. 



Kleine Rietgans, Dutch ; Spetsbercjens Sadc/ds, Swed. 



ad. (England). Differs from A. segetum in being smaller, having 

 a shorter bill, and the legs, feet, and central portion of the bill pink. 

 Culmen T75, wing 16'0, tail 5 '6, tarsus 2'25 inch. 



Hcib. Spitsbergen, where it breeds, and is also said to breed 

 in North Iceland ; in the autumn and winter south to Britain, 

 France, Germany, and Scandinavia ; of very doubtful occurrence 



