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ANSER ALBIFKONS. 



(WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE.) 



Anser septentrionalis sylvestris, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 269 (1760). 



Branta albifrons, Scop. Ann. i. Hist.-Nat. p. 69. no. 87 (1769). 



Oye rieuse, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ix. p. 81 (1783). 



White-fronted Goose, Lath. Syn. iii. pt. 2, p. 463. no. 22 (1785). 



Anas albifrons (Scop.), Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 509 (1788). 



Anser albifrons (Scop.), Bechst. Gemein. Naturg. Deutschl. 2nd ed. iv. p. 898 (1809). 



Anser erythropus, Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 127 (1828, nee Linn.). 



Anser medius, Bruch, Isis, 1828, p. 732. 



Anser bruchii, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 841 (1831). 



Anser intermedins, J. F. Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. xi. p. 340 (1842). 



Anser pallipes, De Selys, Naumannia, 1855, p. 264. 



Anser albifrons roseipes, Schl. Naumannia, 1855, p. 254. 



Oie rieuse ou a front blanc, French ; Oca lombardella, Italian ; Blassengans, Lachgans, 

 German ; Kolgans, Dutch ; Blisgaas, Danish ; NerdlernaJc, Greenlandic ; Helsingi, Ice- 

 landic ; Blisgaas, Norwegian ; Bldsgas, Hvitpannad Gas, Swedish ; Kazarka, Russian. 



Figura? notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 31 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 45, Suppl. taf. 24 ; Fritsch, Vog. 

 Eur. taf. 45. figs. 5, 9 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 288, 289 ; Sundevall, Svensk. 

 Fogl. pi. 57. fig. 1; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 289; id. B. of G. Brit. v. pi. 4; Schlegel, Vog. 

 Nederl. pis. 280, 281, 282. 



Ad. fronte et regione ad basin rostri albis nigro-fusco cinctis : capite reliquo et collo cinereo-fuscis, versus 

 abdomen pallidiore : dorso et scapularibus saturate fuscis, pallide cinereo-fusco marginatis : dorso 

 postico nigricante : supracaudalibus albis : cauda saturate fusca. albo terminata : remigibus nigro-fuscis, 

 scapis albis : tectricibus alarum minoribus fusco-cinereis, extiis cinereis, majoribus einereis albo api- 

 catis : hypochondriis dorso concoloribus : corpore reliquo subtiis albo, pectore et abdomine conspicue 

 nigro notatis : rostro aurantiaco-flavo, ungue albido : iride fusca : pedibus flavis. 



Juv. adulto similis sed coloribus sordidioribus, nee corpore subtus nigro notato. 



Adult Male (Moscow, October) . A broad band covering tbe forehead and the base of the upper mandible, 

 and extending nearly to the eye, pure white ; a small spot on the chin and at the base of the lower 

 mandible also white ; head and neck dark ashy brown, becoming pale brown towards the breast ; the 

 portion margining the white frontal band dark brown ; back and scapulars dark brown, the feathers 

 edged with light ashy brown ; rump blackish brown ; upper tail-coverts white ; tail dark brown termi- 

 nated with white; quills blackish brown with white shafts; wing-coverts ashy brown tipped with white 



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