THE BARRED HEADED GOOLE. 
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Anser indicus, Latham. 
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Vernacular Names.—[Birooa, Kureyee-Hans, Raj-hans (Hindee), Doab, North- 
West Provinces ; Paria, Nepal Terai; Nang-pa (Ladakhi), Ladakh ; Dod Sarle 
hake,* (Canarese) Mysore; Neer-bathoo, Coimbatore; Kangnai, Mzunzipur ; 
Badi-hans ; Chittagong ; 
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HE Barred-headed or Indian Goose appears to occur 
% asa regular cold-weather visitant in most parts of 
Continental India, and as an occasional straggler to 
many parts of Peninsular India; but its exact 
distribution is still very uncertain. 
As far as I can ascertain, it occurs, zz suzt- 
cal able localities, throughout the Punjab, (to the 
extreme North-West at Murdan, where I myself obtained 
a specimen), Rajputana, the North-West Provinces and 
Oudh, and Bengal+ west of the Brahmaputra, Chota Nagpur, 
Ganjam (at the Chilka Lake in which it is extremely abundant) 
and the Central Provinces, where, close to Kamptee, Colonel 
McMaster obtained it. 
I have no record as yet of its occurrence in Tippera or any 
part of Assam, but it must surely occur there, as Godwin- 
Austen obtained it at the Logtak Lake in Munipur, and 
Mr. Damant says, it is common in the latter, and Mr. H. Fasson 
tells me that it occurs in large flocks in salt marshes along the 
Chittagong Coast. 
* This name which merely means, Major Mc. Inroy tells me, ‘‘ large Duck,” is, he 
says, indiscriminately applied to all the Geese and larger Ducks. 
+ Of its distribution in Bengal, Iam by no means certain. I have observed it 
everywhere along the course of the Ganges and in several places in the neighbour- 
hood of Calcutta. 
Mr. Rainey notes it from Jessore, where it is rare. Tickell says :—‘‘ They supply 
in Bengal the place of the Grey Lag, and are met with well within the influence of the 
tides. I have seen numbers of them at the mouth of the Hooghly, below Diamond 
Aarbour.” 
Cripps records it from Dacca and Faridpur, and I have a_ specimen from 
Purneah ; but Tickell says, ‘‘all along Tirhoot, Chupra, and the Terai, they 
appear to be unknown, and Hodgson does not mention this Goose amongst his Birds 
of Nepal.” 
This may be partially correct, but as it certainly occurs in Goruckpur and the 
Nepal Terai, and everywhere along the Ganges, it must occur in Chupra, and I 
shall be much surprised if it does not also occur in Tirhoot. 
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