50 THE GREY LAG-GOOSE. 
It does not appear to extend into any part of British Burma. 
This species is not confined to the plains, or even the sub- 
montane tracts; in the cold season it is at times seen in suitable 
places in the interior of the Himalayas, up to elevations of 
from four to six thousand féet, as in Nepal, Kullu and Kashmir. 
This species is not uncommon during the winter in Afghanis- 
tan. In Western Turkestan it breeds commonly, and somie 
winter there. In Kashghar, it breeds freely, especially about 
Maral Bashi, but does not winter in the country. It is found 
in summer throughout Eastern Siberia, except in the extreme 
north. Ido not find it recorded from Northern China, but it 
winters apparently in those portions of the empire, south of the 
Yang-tse-kiang. Prjevalsky met with them breeding in South- 
eastern Mongolia, the upper valley of the Hoangho, and as far 
south as Lake Kokonor, where, he says, they were rather com- 
mon in the latter part of March. He adds that this species 
arrives in South-eastern Mongolia, about the middle of March, 
or perhaps earlier, and in Tsaidam about the 18th of February. 
This species has not been reported from Japan, nor as yet from 
Persia, Asia Minor, Palestine, or North-eastern Africa, though 
further west as near Tangier and in Algeria, it is found in 
Northern Africa. 
It occurs throughout Europe, except in the extremest north, 
for the most part, in the south in winter and (though some 
breed as far south as Bulgaria and Spain) in the north during 
the summer. 
A great deal has still to be done in working out the distribu- 
tion of this species in Asia, if not in Europe also. For long 
it was confounded with the very distinct species albifrous and 
brachyrhynchus, and even now I rather suspect that two recog- 
nizably distinct species are included under the name Grey 
Lag-Goose. 
THIS SPECIES rarely appears in Upper India before the last 
week in October, and further south the first week in November 
is, I think, the earliest time for their arrival. In some years they 
are a good week or ten days later. Everywhere many, I 
believe, leave the country during the first week in March, but 
many may be met with in the north until quite the end of that 
month ; and I have shot them once as late as the 10th April, on 
the Jhelum, a little below the station of that name. The early 
date on which Prjevalsky observed them in Tsaidam will have 
been noticed, and Scully says, that in Kashghar he got his first 
specimen onthe 28th of February, and that during the early 
part of March they were often seen flying over the fort at 
Yarkand and going straight north. 
Where Geese are much shot at, they feed in the meadows 
and fields exclusively during the hours of darkness, but where 
comparatively unmolested, you will find them grazing in the 
