. The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon . nd,Hume gives it as 15 to 1575. Wing 1475 to 17 inches, culmen 1*57 to 220, tarsus 225 to 230.{Alpherakij.) Colours of the soft parts.—Hume gives these as follows: Legs and feetbright orange; nails pinky or greyish-white; bill pale livid fleshy; nailAvhitish or pale yellowish-white : irides pale-brown. Bill dull flesh-colour, to a more or less rosy-red. often a very beautifulrosy tint; after death it rapidly turns into orange. {Xaumann.) Weight: maximum 6 lbs., minimuir. 4 lbs., average 51 lbs. (Popliam.) Female only differs from the male in being

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. The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon . nd,Hume gives it as 15 to 1575. Wing 1475 to 17 inches, culmen 1*57 to 220, tarsus 225 to 230.{Alpherakij.) Colours of the soft parts.—Hume gives these as follows: Legs and feetbright orange; nails pinky or greyish-white; bill pale livid fleshy; nailAvhitish or pale yellowish-white : irides pale-brown. Bill dull flesh-colour, to a more or less rosy-red. often a very beautifulrosy tint; after death it rapidly turns into orange. {Xaumann.) Weight: maximum 6 lbs., minimuir. 4 lbs., average 51 lbs. (Popliam.) Female only differs from the male in being rather smaller ; I can find nomeasurements of this goose sexed as females, but Alpheraky remarks ;— I therefore quote the dimensions of the White-fronted Goose withoutstating the sex, this being the less to be regretted, seeing that it did not seempossible to give the limits for the maximum measurements of the female, onaccount of the inadequate material. Young.— Bird of the \o;u- is more unifcim in colour and ratlier darker; Plate %i

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