SUSHKIN'S GOOSE 



Melanonyx neglectus, Sushkin 



Plate 7 



English — Sushkin s Bean-Goose; Pink-footed Goose (erroneously for India?); Large Pink- 



footed Goose (Frohawk). 

 Russian — Ufimski gumennik (Buturlin) ; gumennik krasnonosy (Menzbier). 



Anser neglectus, Sushkin, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, v. p. vi. 1895 ; id., "Ibis," 1897, iii. p. 5 ; id., Ptitsy Ufimsk. 

 gub., 1897, p. 69; Madarasz, Gyula-tol, Termeszetrajzi Fuzetek. Kotet, xxiii. 1900, p. 75 

 (Ungar, Ornis) ; Karamzin, Pt. Bugur. i dr. uyezd. i Beleb. u. Ufim. g. (1901), p. 181; Buturlin, 

 Sinoptich. tabl. Okh. Pt. Ross. Imp., p. 43 (1901) ; id., Opred. Plastinch. (" Psov. i Ruzh. Okhota," 

 1900); Oates, Game Birds India, ii. p. 75 (1899); Menzbier, Okh. i Prom. Pt. Ross, i Kavk., 

 p. 470, pi. 135 (1902); Buturlin, "Po Severn Rossii " (Zhitkov i Buturl.), 1901, p. 84; Sushkin, MS. 

 letters to Author; Frohawk, "The Field," 1902, Dec. 20, p. 1045; Sorokin, V., О prolete gusei, 

 "Psov. i Ruzh. Okh.," Jan. 1903, pt. iii. p. 113 (Ryazansk. gub.); Semenov, " Rossiya," ii. chap, 

 iii. p. 104 (1902). 



Melanonyx neglectus (Sushkin), Buturlin, Dikie Gusi Ross. Imp. ("Psov. i Ruzh. Okhota," 1901, Feb.-April) ; 

 id., sep. impr., p. 27 (1901). 



? Anser obscurus (Brehm), Severtsov, Vert, i Goriz. Raspr. Turk. Zh., p. 149 (1873). 



? Anser segetum (partim /), Trevor-Battye, Ice-bound on Kolguev, p. 423 (1895) {Rostro pedibusque subroseis vel 

 carneis). 



? Anser brachyrhynchus, Hume and Marshall, Game Birds India, iii. p. 71 (1880); ? Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, 

 iv. p. 418 (1898) ; ? Oates, Man. Game Birds India, ii. p. 65 (Pink-footed Goose) (1899) ; ? Finn, How 

 to Know the Indian Ducks, p. 17 (1901). 



? Anser medius, Cordeaux (nomen nudum), Brit. Birds, their Nests and Eggs, pi. 15, p. 68 (1896). 



?? Anser oatesi, Rickett, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xi. p. 46 (1 900-1 901). 



Dr. Sushkin, who first discovered and described this species of goose, has kindly 

 allowed me to make the fullest use of both the description of the bird itself and the 

 observations made on its habits detailed with such a masterly hand in his Ptitsy Ufimskoi 

 gubernii. I have been compelled to avail myself very freely of this permission, although 

 the greater part of that author's article has already been reproduced in several journals, 

 and by Professor Menzbier in his Okhotnichi i promyslovya ptitsy Yevropeiskoi Rossii i 

 Kavkaza, where this goose was figured for the first time. 



"This species is distinguished from A. brachyrhynchus" writes Dr. Sushkin, "by 

 greater size, longer and more robust bill, and by the fact that the secondary coverts are 

 black-brown, and thus of another colour to the main coverts. From A, segetum it is 

 distinguished by the dark flesh-colour of the legs and median part of the bill. 



"As concerns the colour-differences of the plumage of the new goose from 

 A. segetum, the colouring of the head and neck is darker than in the latter, and the margins of 

 the feathers of the upper side and of the dark feathers of the flanks of the body are browner. 



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