Genus Eulabeia, Reichenbach (1852 



Along each side of the dark neck runs a broad white streak. Bill slender, entirely 

 light (yellow), with black nails. Upper nail included in total length of bill not less than 

 four times. (Adult birds.) 



THE BAR-HEADED GOOSE 



EULABEIA INDICA, LATHAM 



Plate 14 



Indiisky gits ; gorny and indeisky gus (Przewalski) ; Turkestansky gus (Buturlin) ; Mongolsky 

 gus (in Minusinsk district, teste Dr. Sushkin, although it does not apparently here 

 ascend to the north of the Mongolian frontier). 



English — Barred-headed or Bar-headed Goose. 



Anas indica, Latham, Indian Ornithol., p. 839 (1790). 



Anser undulata, Bonnaterre, Encyclop. Method., i. p. 114 (1790). 



Anser melanocephalus, Vieill. xxiii. p. 332 (18 18). 



Anser indica, Stephens, Gen. Zool., xii. 2. p. 36 (1824). 



Anser indicus, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1 831, p. 125 ; Hume and Marshall, Game Birds of India, iii. p. 81 

 pi. 12 (1880) ; Severtsov, Ibis, 1883, p. 76 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1886, p. 320 ; Pleske, Th. 

 Rev. Turkest. Ornis., p. 54 (1888); Przewalski, Mong. strana Tang., ii. p. 1 5 1 (1876) ; id., III. Putesh 

 Tsentr. Az., p. 398 (with sketch), (1883) ; id., IV. Putesh. Tsentr. Az., p. 327 (1888) ; Buturlin, Opredel 

 Plastinchatokl. (" Psov. i Ruzh. Okhota," 1900); id., separ., p. 7 ; zaf./Dikie Gusi Ross. Imp. (" Psov. i 

 Ruzh. Okhota," 1901) ; id., separ., p. 21 {Eulabeia); id., Sinoptich. tabl. Okh. Pt. Ross. Imp., p. 42 (190 1) 

 Alpheraky, Kuldzha i Tian-shan, pp. 145 and 165 (1901); Taczanowski, Faune Orn. Sib. Orient, p 

 1087 (1893); Oates, Man. Game Birds of India, ii. p. 59 (1899); Pleske, Th., Orn. Ausb. Exp. Gebr 

 Grum-Grz., in Mel. Biol., xiii. pt. 2. p. 27 (1892) ; Grum-Grzymailo, Pat. Zapadn. Kitai, i. p. 520(1896), 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvii. p. 105 (1895); Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Birds, iv. p. 419 

 (1898); Finn, How to Know the Ind. Ducks, Calcutta, 1901, p. 21. 



Bernicla indica, Grey, Cat. Birds, iii. p. 608, no. 15 (1844). 



Eulabeia indica, Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat, p. ix. (1852); Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool., ii. p. 43 (Baikal) 

 (1877). 



Eulabeia indica, Bonaparte, Compt-Rendus, xliii. p. 648 (1856). 



Eulabeia indicus, Ball, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 436. 



Anser skomiakovi, Severtsov, Vertik. i Goriz. Raspr. Turk. Zh., p. 148, pi. 10, figs. 3, 4 (adult and young in down) 

 (1873); id., Cab., J. f. Orn., 1873, pp. 346, 377, 386; 1875, pp. 8, 100, 184. 



Eulabia, Newton, Diet of Birds, p. 374 (1894). 



Adult Male 



Head and a broad longitudinal streak on sides of neck, white ; black bar traversing 

 hind part of occiput, reaching with its extremities to eyes ; another shorter transverse black bar 



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