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behind the nail and spreads out under the nostrils with age. The legs 

 are pinkish flesh-colour. 



In the British Museum there is a skin of this species from Russia 

 (Sushkin); one from the valley of the Yenesei river in Siberia, latitude 

 66$° (Seebohm) ; one from Novaya Zembla (Markham) and lastly a 

 specimen which is said to have been procured in Great Britain (register 

 number 222a). 



The bill of this species varies in length from 2*4 to 2*6 inches and the 

 wing from 17'5 to 18'6 inches. 



This Goose breeds in Novaya Zembla, Markham *s specimen recorded 

 above having been shot in July and being in full moult. In winter it 

 has been found in Russia and Hungary. From the fact that this 

 Goose occurs in the valley of the Yenesei river, it is highly probable 

 that it may be found in India in winter. 



5. Anser middendarffi, Severtzoff (fig, 5). 

 Middekndorff's Bean-Goose. 



In 1902 Captain J. H. Whitehead sent me a skin of a Bean- Goose 

 which he shot on the 24th December of the previous year at Myitkyna 

 on the Irrawaddy river. It was in the company of a Barred-headed 

 Goose and two Brahminy Ducks. It was sexed as a male and turns 

 out to be a Goose of the present species. It weighed seven and a halt 

 pounds ; the pale parts of the bill and the legs were orange; the iris 

 was brown. The bill measures 2"75 inches in length and the wing 18 

 inches. 



It is very satisfactory to have got a good skin of a Bean-Goose from 

 Burma for we now know of at least one species which undoubtedly 

 occurs in the Indian Empire. I have deposited the specimen in the 

 British Museum. 



Middendorff obtained this species in the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia 

 and tigured the head very well in his book of travels in Siberia. 



A very fine specimen of this Goose procured by Radde on the 5th 

 May is in the British Museum. From its size it is presumably an old 

 male. It was shot on the Tunka river in Trans-Baicalia in approximate 

 latitude 50° and longitude 115°. The length of the bill is 3-25 inches 

 and the wing measures 18'5 inches. Middendorff describes the feet 

 and the pale parts of the bill as being of an orange colour. 



This Goose has probably a wide range in Siberia and Central 

 Asia. It is a very fine large species with a long and somewhat slender 



