THE LESSER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE 



Anser finmarchicus, Gunner 



Plates 5 and 6 



English— The Small White- fronted Goose ; Lesser White-fronted Goose. 



Russian — Malaya kazdrka ; kozdrka (teste Sabaneev, in Transural) ; malaya belolobaya 



kazarka and kozarka ; hazard and kozard (collective) ; maly beloloby gus y garkavy 



gns (Little Russian, teste Pallas == snuffler) ; piskun (Kamchatka) ; piskulka (Perm, 



teste Sabaneev; and elsewhere) ; tatdry (Cossacks in Kirgiz Steppe, ace. Maleev 1 ) ; 



Cfaigaika (Siberia) Vizgun (Dall gives this name, without stating to which species 



it belongs ; seemingly to this, but in what district). 

 Bashkir — ? Kara-kdz ( = black goose ; which seems to be doubtful). 

 Ostyak — Kirri-sem (on Surgut and Irtysh, teste Pallas = sturgeon-eye). 

 Vogal — Lyak (Pallas). 

 Samoyed — Singer e (Pallas). 

 Mongol — A chin (Pallas). 

 Kalmyk— Shoshinar-galim (Pallas). 

 Tungus — Ilyagli (Pallas). 



Yakut — Khan-khalds ; Lynglynyd, also Lyglyya. 

 Lamut — Karkalu (Pallas). 

 Kamchadal — Keiresh ; Keresid (Pallas). 

 Finnish — Kilgo-hanhi ; Kilju-hanhi? 

 Lapp — Riodi-chtwnya (Muonjoniska) ; chuonya (Karesuando) ; Ukka-chtwnyagaz and 



kelpinyun chuonya (Utsioki) ; galben-yudne chuonya (Finmarken). These names 



I borrow from F. D. Pleske. 

 German — Kleine Blassengans ; kleine Bl'assgans ; Zwerg Blassgans ; kleinschnabelige 



Gans ; Schwalbengans ; Zwerggans. 

 Swedish — Finmarke Gaas (Gunner, 1767). 

 French — Oie naine. 



Anas erythropus, Linn., Syst Nat., i. p. 197 (partim, cum A. albifrons confusa), 1776. 



Anser finmarchicus, Gunner, in Knud Leems, Bestrivelse over Finmarkens Lapper, J. E. Gunneri Anmaerkinger, 



1 Psovaya г Rnzheinaya Okhota^ 1900, book ix., July. 



2 Notwithstanding Pallas's statement that he knows only one species of white-fronted goose {A. erythropus), it must be presumed 

 that he met with both species, and that, like Linne, he confused them ; therefore very probably the above-quoted native names refer partly 

 to the white-fronted goose, A. albifrons, partly to the lesser species. Unfortunately, it is now impossible to decide this question — the 

 natives must be questioned afresh. The dimensions of the wing given by Pallas do not enable me to decide what goose he means, as a 

 wing of 15 in. ( = 380 mm.) may occur among large lesser white-fronted geese as well as among the smallest specimens of the larger 

 species. 



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