26 NOTES ON THE AVIFAUNA OF MOUNT ABOO 
Delhi, during the cold season, and Mr. Adam has given us full 
accounts of its occurrence in great numbers, but irregularly, at 
the Sambhur Lake. We have no record of its occurrence in any 
other part of Jodhpoor, or in Cutch or Kattiawar. They have 
now been observed at Sambhur in every month from October to 
the commencement of July. Do they breed in India? Or do 
they migrate to us yearly from Africa? It would be most in- 
teresting to work out the life history of this species.—A. O. H.] 
945.—Anser cinereus, Meyer. 
The Grey Goose is rare, and I have only twice been fortu- 
nate enough to get within shot of a flock. I was waiting on 
the first occasion for ducks in the centre of a narrow strip of mar- 
shy ground connecting two good-sized tanks, and soon after the 
coolies entered the tank in front of me to beat I heard the fine 
trumpet-like call of this species. Shortly afterwards, I saw a 
flock, consisting of about 30 birds, approaching my screen. 
To my great delight as they advanced they gradually 
descended until the leader of the “V,” a fine old gander, 
was within 25 yards of me. I took steady aim of him and 
fired, and down he came within a few paces of me like 
a sack of turnips. I wounded another one badly with the left 
barrel, and recovered it later in the afternoon in some thick 
rushes about half a mile from the spot. The remainder of the 
flock, after sailing about in the greatest confusion for some time 
over the tank behind me, returned eventually, flying over my 
head at an immense height in the air. Again I fired at the leader, 
aiming about 14 feet in front of his head and using an 8. 8. G. 
cartridge, apparently this time without effect, however I kept 
my eye on them, and after proceeding about 300 yards the 
bird I had shot at commenced a series of such unusual 
evolutions in the air that I began to suspect that he was 
wounded. At last he directed his flight upwards, and 
after rising several hundred feet, closed his wings  sud- 
denly and fell to the ground stone dead. On examination 
it proved to be another fine old gander with one shot hole in 
the neck just below the chin. I have seen a great number of 
birds tower, especially Partridges and occasionally Pheasants, 
but a wild goose under such circumstances is one of those novel 
and unusual sights that few men ever have a chance of 
witnessing. On the second occasion during a recent trip, 
Tonly saw one flock of Grey Geese numbering seven, of which 
I bagged two (right and left) as they passed over my head 
about 85 yards high. 
[Very common in Sindh, and has been obtained both in 
Cutch and Kattiawar, but has not yet been obtained in Jodh- 
poor ; it has noteven been observed at the Sambhur Lake, 
