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writes (Ibis, 1860, p. 350), it was "common in February 1858, on the west coasts of Con 

 tinental Greece, about Petala and the plains of Acheloiis, where we shot several. I have seen 

 Wild Geese in most parts of Epirus and Albania that I have visited, but could not make out 

 whether they belonged to this species or to Anser segetum." I do not find any particulai-s of its 

 occurrence in Asia Minor; and Canon Tristram did not meet with it in Palestine. It does not 

 appear to have been met with in North-east Africa; but Loche records it from Algeria, and 

 Mr. Taczanowski met with it in December on Lake Fezzara. According to M. Favier it is 

 numerous near Tangier, arriving in November and December, and leaving again for the north 

 in March. 



In Asia the Grey-lag Goose ranges as far east as China, but it does not appear to occur in 

 Japan. It has been obtained at Erzeroom ; but Mr. Blanford states (E. Pers. ii. p. 303) that it 

 does not appear to have been noticed in Persia or on the Caspian. According to Dr. Jerdon 

 (B. of India, ii. p. 779) this Goose is "a common winter visitant to the north of India, extending 

 its migrations to Central India, but rarely seen further south. It is sometimes met with in small 

 parties of from four to twenty, occasionally in vast flocks, which feed on young corn, grass, &c, 

 and during the heat of the day rest on some sandbank in the large rivers, or in the middle of a 

 tank." Mr. Hume writes (Stray Feathers, i. p. 258), it is " excessively abundant along all the 

 greater rivers of the Punjab, but least so on the Indus, in Sindh. We met with it, but com- 

 paratively rarely, in the neighbourhood of lakes, and once or twice feeding in the fields. It is 

 not nearly so common in Sindh as in many parts of the North-western Provinces." Dr. Severtzoff 

 states that it breeds in Turkestan; and Mr. Scully writes (Stray Feathers, iv. p. 197), it is "a 

 seasonal visitant to Kashgharia, where it breeds. The first specimen of this species which I got 

 was shot near Yarkand on the 28th February; in the early part of March they were often seen 

 flying over the fort at Yarkand, and going straight north. The bird is said to breed plentifully 

 near Maralbashi, but not in the immediate vicinity of Yarkand ; young birds were captured about 

 the beginning of June." 



In Siberia the Grey-lag Goose appears to be restricted to the Amoor country, and is not 

 common. Dr. Raclde says that " the first pair were seen on the 26th of March on the Tarei-nor; 

 on the 18th of April the first eggs were found, usually only two in one nest ; and on the 8th and 

 12th September 1856, many of the Grey-lag Geese migrated southward over the Tarei-nor;" and 

 Dr. Schrenck writes as follows : — " One example of this species, received through Mr. Maack 

 from the head-waters of the Amoor, which had been shot on the 28th of April (10th May) in 

 the vicinity of Nertschinsk, agrees with the European species. I have no doubt that this species 

 occurs also in the Lower Amurland, though I did not capture any there." Colonel Prjevalsky, 

 in his notes on the ornithology of Mongolia (Rowley's Orn. Misc.), writes as follows : — " We 

 found Anser cinereus breeding in S.E. Mongolia and in the Hoang-ho valley, where we discovered 

 nearly fledged young on the Tsaidemin-nor, as also adult birds — the males moulting so completely 

 that they could not fly, but tried to escape from our dog by running, when they performed all 

 sorts of tricks, making short turnings or suddenly stopping, and running backward in order to 

 mislead the dog ; and in the most hopeless cases they tried to hide themselves in the uneven 

 ground. 



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