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like a tight-rope dancer along the sharp-edged ridge or 
coping of the wall. 
280. Anser middendorffi Severtz. 
Anser segetum 1). & O. p. 491 (part). 
Anser middendorffi La T. p. 583. 
A specimen of the Great Bean-Goose was shot at Chin- 
wangtao on the 29th of October, 1911, and two at the Hsieh 
Chia Ying marshes on the 29th of March, 1913, and in March 
1914. Besides these I have one from Shaweishan,at the mouth 
of the Yangtse, and there is another shot at Fu-an,in north¬ 
eastern Fohkien, on the 3rd of January, 1914, which is in the 
British Museum (Natural History). This fine Goose, which 
may be distinguished at a glance from the other Bean-Geese 
found in the Far East by its very long and large bill, is not 
very rare on the coast, and it is strange that it should 
have been overlooked by Swinhoe. It is, however, by far 
the least common of the Chinese Bean-Geese. Tang Wang- 
wang, my former collector at Foochow, wrote to me this last 
winter that this Goose was very abundant in January 1916 
in the Shanghai market. Two males in my collection from 
Shaweishan and Hsieh Chia Ying measure 19 in. in the wing. 
The bills in five specimens measure as follows : Culmen 
72 mm. to 86 mm. Number of teeth 24 to 29. 
Mr. Sowerby, in his 4 Sportsman’s Miscellany/ mentions 
the shooting of several of these Geese on the Yangtse, where 
he states they are numerous. The weight of one, shot by 
Mr. H. E. Gibson of Shanghai, is given in this work (p. 90) 
as having been 13J lbs. 
281. Anser albifrons (Gm.), 
Anser albifrons D. & O. p. 492 ; La T. p. 583. 
The White-fronted Goose is quite common in spring. 
It passes in March and during the first half of April. 
I have no record of the autumn passage. 
The soft parts of birds shot are:—-Bill pinkish-flesh, 
nail white; legs orange; the rim of the eyelid is brown. 
