ANSER 593 



827. BAR-HEADED GOOSE. 



ANSER INDICUS. 







Anser indicus (Lath.), Ind. Orn. ii. p. 839 (1790) ; Salvador!, Cat. B. 

 Br. Mus. xxvii. p. 105 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. p. 419 ; 

 Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 1087 ; A. skorniaJcovi, Severtz. Turk. Jevot. 

 pp. 70, 149, pi. x. figs. 3, 4. 



fCarcyi-Hdns, Hindu. 



< ad. (India). Head and a long white band down each side of the 

 neck 'white ; two horseshoe-shaped black bars on the occiput and nape ; 

 rest of neck ashy brown ; upper parts ashy grey with pale tips to the 

 feathers, the mantle and scapulars tinged with brown ; Jower back and 

 rump pure ashy grey ; under parts whity brown, the sides of the breast 

 browner, the feathers with pale tips forming bars ; abdomen, flanks, 

 upper and under tail-coverts white j quills and tail grey margined and 

 tipped with white, the secondaries browner ; bill yellow ; legs orange ; 

 iris brown. Culmen 2'0, wing 18'0, tail 6'0, tarsus 3'0 inch. In the 

 young bird the black bars on the nape are absent, the crown and nape are 

 dark brown, the white neck-stripes are absent ; back grey and under parts 

 nearly white. 



Hob. Turkestan; Mongolia; Tibet; north to Lake Baikal, 

 wintering in India. 



In habits it does not appear to differ from its allies, and in 

 the autumn and winter is generally met with in small or large 

 flocks, and feeds chiefly on grain, the feeding time being usually 

 in the early morning and evening. It breeds in Mongolia and 

 Tibet in May and June, but I find nothing on record respecting 

 its nidification. 



828. CHINESE GOOSE. 

 ANSER CYGNOIDES. 



A user cygnoides (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 108 (1766) ; Pall. Zoogr. Ross. 

 As. ii. p. 218 and pi. ; David and Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 493 ; 

 (Salvadori), Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxvii. p. 107 ; Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. 

 p. 235. 



Suchonos, Russ. ; Sakatsura-hishikui, Jap. 



<J ad. (Siberia). Crown and band along the hind-neck dark brown ; a 

 narrow line round the base of the bill dull white ; cheeks and neck 

 whitish, along the front of the neck tinged with brown ; upper parts 

 greyish brown with pale margins to the feathers ; quills grey ; tail 

 brownish grey with white margins ; under parts buffy white, fading to 

 white on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; breast-feathers with rusty 

 margins ; flanks brown with pale margins ; bill black ; legs orange ; iris 



