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Pink-footed goose, but iti the absence of the black base to the bill, I 

 am inclined to regard it as the young, in first plumage, of the White- 

 fronted goose." 



I may note that the bill of the specimen in my collection, and which 

 lias had very rough usage from neglect, rats, and finally, earthquakes 

 and heavy rain, has the bill now of a uniform dirty grey-white. It 

 would seem, therefore, that very little reliance can be placed on the 

 colouring of the ■bill, in old specimens, as a means to identification. 

 14. Anser indicus. 

 TJie Bar-headed Goose, 



Anser indicus,. Jerdon, ''Birds of India," III, p. 782 ; Hume, " Nests 

 and Eggs, " p. 636 ; Butler, " Str. Feath.," IV, pp. 27, 40 and 99, ed. 

 VI, p. 260 ; Adams, ibid, p. 401 ; Hume, ibid, VII, p. 491 ; Hume 

 and Marshall, '• Game Birds," III, p. 81 ; Hume's " Nests and Eggs," 

 (Oates' ed.), Ill, p.279; Salvadori, "Cat.B.B. Museum," XXVII, p.105. 



Eulabeia indicus. Ball, " Str. Feath.," Ill, p. 436. 



Adult. — " Head white, with two horseshoe blackish bars on the 

 occiput and nape ; hind neck brown-black ; a longitudinal white band 

 on the sides of the neck ; upper plumage very pale ashy, the feathers 

 edged with whitish and tiDged with brown on the mantle and scapulars ; 

 sides of the rump and upper tail coverts whitish ; throat white, fore- 

 neck brownish-ashy, passing gradually into cinereous on the breast, 

 whitish on the abdomen ; nest and under tail coverts white ; feathers 

 of the flanks brown, rufous towards tho tips with pale edgings, quills 

 grey-dusky towards the tips, and gradually becoming darker towards 

 the secondaries ; tertials brownish-grey ; tail grey, white tipped. 

 « Total length 27", wing 17", tail 6", bill 2", tarsus 2'75 " (Salvadori). 

 " Length 27*25 to 33*5 ; expanse 50 to 66 ; wing 16*0 to- 19*0 ; tail 

 from vent 5*0 to 7'0 ; tarsus 2'5 to 3'3 ; bill from gape 1*8 to 2*3 ; 

 weight 4 lbs. to 6 lbs. 14 oz." (Hume). 



" The legs and feet are light orange, some times paler, occasionally 

 only yellow ; daws horny black ; the irides deep brown ; the bill 

 orange-yellow to orange, rarely only pale, lemon-yellow often paler, or 

 greenish towards the nostrils ; the nail black or blackish." (Hume). 



Young. — "Forehead brownish-white, a little tinged with rusty; a 

 dusky line through the lores to the eye ; whole crown, occiput and 

 nape sooty or dusky black ; no trace of either the two distinct blaek 



