$2 THE BARRED-HEADED GOOSE. 
In Sind, where it is much rarer than the Grey Lag, it is 
almost confined to the course of the Indus, and Doig says, he 
never met with it onthe Eastern Narra. I have no record of 
its occurrence in Cutch, Kathiawar, Gujarat, the Konkan, or 
the Deccan. Evenin the southern part of the Central Pro- 
vinces, it seems rare, and south of this it is, as a rule, extremely 
rare. But Major Mc.Inroy tells me, that it occurs in large 
numbers in the Chitaldroog District of Mysore, and he has 
heard that it is also found along the banks of the Kaveri, 
south-east of Mysore, while Mr. Theobald has shot it in 
Coimbatore.* Though it has not, I believe, ever been procured 
in Ceylon, Jerdon in his first Catalogue, (Madr. J. of Science, 
&c., 1840, 218,) remarks :—‘“ This Goose is not so common in 
Southern India as it appears to be in Bengal and the more 
northern provinces; but J have seen it in pairs in August, 
within a few miles of Cape Comorin, and once or twice in flocks 
of fifteen or twenty in large tanks, on the central table land.” 
The passage italicised is inexplicable, as before August, every 
Barred-Goose has left India for more temperate climes; but 
Jerdon’s subsequent statement, in the Birds of India, “ that he had 
seen a@ pair at the southern extremity of the continent,’ and 
that these were perhaps wounded birds, may help to explain 
the matter. 
During the cold weather these birds occur, not only in the 
plains, but far up into the Himalayas in the valleys of the large 
rivers, often to elevations of 4,000 and 7,000 feet, in the lakes of 
Cashmere, &c., &c. 
I am not aware that this species has been observed in any 
part of British Burma (Tickell says it is quite unknown in 
Arakan); but Dr. Anderson tells us, that ‘ occasionally large 
flocks of this bird were observed at various parts of the Irra- 
waddy above Mandelay, and on the sandbanks in the Tapeng, 
and on the old rice flats behind the village.” 
This species occurs and breeds in all the lakes of Tibet 
in the eastern portions of Western Turkestan, and in Yarkand. 
Major Biddulph writes to me: “I saw oneon the small Pamir 
Lake on our way back in May, and also all along the Aktash 
Stream in the same month.” 
It was obtained at Lake Baikal by Dybowski, (and probably 
occurs throughout Central and Southern Siberia), and in the 
Kokonor in Chinese Tibet by Prjevalski. 
* Mr Albert Theobald says :—‘‘I have not seen this Goose south of Coimbatore, 
I have shot them in the Collegal Talug only ; they come at the end of November or 
early in December, and leave about February or March—a few stragglers being 
found in April in the Agaroram tank about 3 miles from Collegal. They are far 
from common, only a few, ten to twenty, being found in a flock. 
‘¢ During the day they keep floating idly in the centre of Some tank or river, and 
as soon as it gets dusk, they all leave it and go to the paddy fields to pick up the 
falien grain after harvesting, and even pick the grain off the standing crop. They 
return to the tanks or river at 6 or 7 in the morning.” 
