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Mr. Pearson (The Ibis, Voi. II,'No. 6,-p. 721) shot an Anser albi- 

 from on June the 24th in Novaya Zembya, and reports that the birds 

 were then moulting, so, presumably, they were also breeding there. The 

 same author and his brother obtained this goose in the Philippine Islands. 



Mr. L. Popham found it breeding on the Yenisi river, but says that 

 it was not half so common as ', the Bean goose. He obtained three eggs 

 •and also .a gosling in down, but gives no details of how he obtained 

 them. -.-.!■ 



I have never heard of this goose being obtained anywhere to the 

 -east of , the Indian Empire, though there seems to be no reason why it 

 should not sometimes enter Assam and .Northern ■Burma. Probably, 

 however, it remains for Western sportsmen to say whether it is fairly 

 common or not, and it is to be hoped that sportsmen will go in more 

 commonly for making notes of the varieties they shoot and recording 

 them for the benefit of others; - „ 



12. Anser erytttropus. ; 



The Dwarf Goose. » 



Anser mirintus. Hume, " Str. Feathers," VIII, p, 114 ; Hume, Cat., 

 -No. 948.- 



Anser erylhropus. Jerdon, " Birds of India/' III, p. 781 ; Hume 

 and Marshall, " Game Birds," III, p. 78, Plate 77 j Salvador!, " Cat. B. 

 B. Mus.," Vol. XXVII, p. 97. 



Adult Male. — Differs from the last bird, Anser alhifrons, in being a 

 good deal smaller and having the white on the forehead far broader 

 reaching a line drawn across the head between the eyes ; also in having 

 a decidedly darker rump and a generally darker tint to the plumage. 

 >" Total length about 21 inches, wing 15, tail 4*5, culmen 1*27, tarsus 

 2-4 " (Salvadori). " Length 19'5 to 21 inches, wing 13 to 14'1 ; tail 

 2*85 to 3'25 ; tarsus 2'3, to 2'4 " (Hume). 



The female. — Is yet smaller than the male; wing about 13*3" (Salva* 

 dori). "The colour of the bill is in the young, before the first autumn 

 moult, a reddish-grey ; the nail blackish ; later this latter becomes a 

 greyish-white, and the bill pale orange-} r ellow ; in old birds . the bill is 

 lively reddish-yellow or orange ; the nail yellowish-reddish-white, 

 There is never any trace of black upon the bill, 



''The naked edges of the eyelids are dirty yellow in the young, 

 orange in the old : the irides are .dark brown. The feet are in the 



