MIDDENDORFF'S GOOSE 



Melanonyx arvensis sibiricus, Alpheraky 



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English — Middendorff 's Goose (Sclater). 



Russian — Bolshoi gumennik (Yakutsk, teste Maak) ; zheltogolovy gus and zheltogolovy 



gumennik \ lesnoi gumennik (on Boganida, teste Middendorff); ryzhegolovy 



gtimennik and vostochno-sibirski gumennik (Buturlin). 

 Mongol — Shara-khusdr-kholbn (Transbaikalia, Kirilov). 

 Buryat — Shara-khazyur-galun (valley of Irkut — zheltogolovy gus). 

 Yakut — Kalkhalkh (Schrenck). 



Kamchadal — Giet (label on specimen brought by Voznesensky). 

 German — Sibirische Acker-Gans. 



Anser grandis, Middendorff [nee Pallas), Bull. Phys. Math. Ac. Sc. St-Petersburg, iii. No. 19, p. 298 (1844); id., 

 Sib. Reis., ii. p. 225, pi. xx. fig. 1, 185 1 ; Schrenck, Reis. Amur-L., i. p. 462 (i860); Radde, Reis. S.O. 

 Sib., ii. p. 354 (1863) ; Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1873, p. 649; Taczanowski, J. f. Orn., 1873, 

 p. 108 — 1874, p. 336 — 1875, p. 256; Maak, Putesh. Amur, Prib., p. 143 (1859); Kirilov, Okhota i 

 Okh. Khozyaistvo v Zabaikalye (" Prir. i Okh.," 1902, iii.). 



A user middendorffii, Severtsov [partim resp. Sib. or), Vert, i Goriz. raspr. Turk. Zh., pp. 70 and 149 (1873); 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 416 ; Oates, Man. Game Birds of India, ii. p. 76 (1899) ; Buturlin, Dikie Gusi 

 Ross. Imp. (" Psov. i Ruzh. Okh.," Feb.- April 1901); id., separ., p. 31 (1901). 



Anser middendorffii, Menzbier, Put. d'ra Slyunina, " Okhotsko-Kamch. Krai," p. 346 (1900). 



Anser segetum middendorffii, Buturlin, Sinopt. tabl. Pt. Ross. Imp., p. 44 (1901); Khomyakov, Ptitsy Ryaz. gub. 

 [partim) v Mater, dlya pozn. Faun, i Fl. Ross. Imp., Otd. zool., pt. 5, p. 34, pi. ii. fig. 3 (Yakutsk). 



Anser segetum, var. serrirostris, Taczanowski [nee Swinhoe), J. f. Orn., 1874, p. 333. 



Anser segetum, Swinhoe [partim), Ibis, 1875, p. 456. 



Anser segetum serrirostris [partim), Seebohm, Hist. Brit. Birds, iii. p. 494 (1885) ; id., Birds of Jap. Emp., p. 236 

 [partim), 1890. 



Anser segetum middendorffii, Nikolsky, Ostr. Sakh. i yego F. Pozv., p. 224 (1889); Taczanowski [partim), 

 Faune Orn. Sib. Or., p. 1098 (1893); Dybowski, J. f. Orn., 1868, p. 338—1873, p. 108—1874, 

 p. 336 — 1875, p. 256; Pleske, Ornith. Ausb. Exp. Gebriid. Gr.-Grzym. Centr. As., St.-Petersb., 1892, 

 p. 298. 



Anser serrirostris middendorffii, Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvii. p. 102 (1895). 



? Gus, Yablonsky, Zhurn. "Prir. i Okh.," 1891, vii. (Okh. v Min. uyezde Yenis. gub., p. 58) [segetum serrirostris}). 



My notice may commence with a statement of the grounds which induced me to give 

 a new name to this goose, known since the appearance of Severtsov's work (Vertik. г 

 Gorizont. raspr. Turkest. Zhiv, 1873) under the name of Anser middendorffii. In the 

 notice of the yellow-billed goose I have included Severtsov's name of A. middendorffii among 

 the synonyms of the latter, and my reasons for so doing may now be given. 



Severtsov made several mistakes in describing Anser middendorffii from Turkestan 



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