ANSERES. 235 



Pryer state that it is occasionally obtained in Tokio Bay in winter, 

 but there is no skin in the Pryer collection. The example procured 

 by the Siebold Expedition was probably obtained at Nagasaki 

 (Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 135) . 



The breeding- range of the Hooper extends from the Atlantic to 

 the Pacific, and it is not known that examples from the Eastern 

 Palsearctic Region differ in any way from those obtained in the western 

 part of that Region. 



221. CTGNUS BEWICKI. 



(BEWICK'S SWAN.) 

 Cygnus bemckii, Yarrell, Trans. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 45.3 (1833). 



In Bewick's Swan the yellow on the mandible does not reach so far 

 forward as the nostrils, whilst the black extends backwards to the 

 gape. 



Figures : Gould, Birds of Great Britain, v. pi. 10 ; Dresser, Birds 

 of Europe, vi. pi. 419. fig. 3 (head) . 



Bewick's Swan is a winter visitor to the Japanese Islands. It was 

 first included in the Japanese list on the authority of a specimen in the 

 Tokio Educational Museum (Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 212). 

 There is an example in the Pryer collection from Tokio Bay. 



Bewick's Swan breeds in the high north both of the Eastern and 

 the Western Palsearctic Region, and winters in the British as well as 

 the Japanese Seas. It is not known to vary in any way within its 

 range. 



222. ANSER CYGNOIDES, 

 (CHINESE GOOSE.) 



Anser cygmides, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 502 (1788). 



The Chinese Goose has a black bill, and a dark brown band down 

 the back of the neck. 



Figure : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 81. 



The Chinese Goose appears to be a resident in Japan, and has been 

 recorded from the Kurile Islands (Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. 

 p. 219) . There is an example from Yokohama in the Blakiston col- 

 lection (Seebohtn, Ibis, 1884, p. 32) . 



It breeds in Eastern Siberia, and winters in China. 



