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b' Nail of the bill dusky or black. 



c" An orange band round the median part 



of the beak ; feet orange ...A. fabilis. 



d" A pink band round the median part of 



the beak, feet pink, flesh colour ...A. brachyrhynchus. 

 b. Tomia not very -arched. Head with two 



black bands on the occiput and nape ...A, indicus. 

 Alternative Key. 



a. Head with two dark bands „. ...A. indicus. 



b. Head without any bands. 



a 1 Nail of bill white or nearly so. 



a" No white on forehead, rump grey. ..A. rubrirostris. 

 b" White on forehead, rump dark 

 greyish-brown. 



a'" Wing over 15"; culmen 2'9"...A. albifrons. 

 1>ii Wing under 1 5" ; culmen 2'3". A. erythropus. 

 V Nail of bill blackish. 



e" Feet yellow to orange ... ...A. fabilis. 



d" Feet always tinged pink... A. brachyrhynchus. 



10. Anser rubrirostris. 

 The Indian Grey Lag Goose. 

 Anser cinereus. Jerdon, " Birds of India," III, p. 779 ; Hume, " Str. 

 Feath.," I, p. 258 ; id, "Nest and Eggs," p. 635 ; Butler, "Str. Feath.," 

 IV, p. 26; Scully, ibid, p. 199; Hume, "Str. Feath.," VII, p. 491; VIII, 

 p. 114 ; Hume, Cat., No. 945 ; Hume and Marshall, " Game Birds," III, 

 p. 50 ; Hume, " Nests and Eggs," (Oates' ed.), Ill, p. 279, Barnes, 

 "Birds of Bombay," p. 945. 



Anser rubrirostris. Salvadori, " Cat. of Birds British Museum," 

 XXVII, p. 91. 



Description : Adult Male. — Lower back and rump french-grey, upper 

 tail coverts white, remainder of upper plumage, head and neck, ash- 

 brown, the scapularies edged lighter ; a very narrow white rim of 

 feathers at the base of the bill ; lower neck in front, breast and 

 abdomen, pale greyish-brown; the abdomen with more or less numerous 

 broad black spots, sometimes almost confluent, at others almost absent ; 

 remainder of lower plumage white ; flanks brown, tipped pale french- 

 grey, more grey at the bases of the feathers ; shoulder of wing and 



