. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . cinereous with white undulations ; longest scapularsedged with white ; upper tail coverts black ; lesser and median coverts bluishashy, edged with white ; two first primaries bluish, others black ; tail black ;breast and upper abdomen ashy whitish; lower abdomen and under tailcoverts pure white. Bill much smaller than in the last, fleshy red or purplish,the base and the nail black ; feet pinkish red. {^jferd.) Length.—27 to 29 inches; wing 15-9 to 17; tail 5-
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . cinereous with white undulations ; longest scapularsedged with white ; upper tail coverts black ; lesser and median coverts bluishashy, edged with white ; two first primaries bluish, others black ; tail black ;breast and upper abdomen ashy whitish; lower abdomen and under tailcoverts pure white. Bill much smaller than in the last, fleshy red or purplish,the base and the nail black ; feet pinkish red. {^jferd.) Length.—27 to 29 inches; wing 15-9 to 17; tail 5-5; bill at front 175;tarsus 3 ; middle toe 3. Hab.—This is an extremely rare bird in India. Hume records a picture of onewhich was got in the Punjab, and also a statement that Colonel Irby killedone at Alumbagh near Lucknow. He has seen a pair among Grey Lags on a ANSER. 173 sandbank in the Jumna, and an assurance has been given him by ColGraham that it is not uncommon on the Brahmaputra in Assam. This is allwe know of its occurrence in India. In Northern Europe it is common, andprobably also Central Europe and Northern Anser albifrons. The White-fronted Goose. 213. Anser albifrons, Gm., Naum. Vogt. t. 289; Jerd., B. p. 780 ; Str. F. i. p. 259; viii. p. 421 ; Murray, Bdbk., ZooL, tjr., Sind;Hume and Marsh, Ga?}ie Birds, Bid. p. 73 ; Murray, Vert. ZooL, S/ud,p. 284; id., Avi/. Brit. Bid. ii. p. 674, No. 1376.—The White-frontedor Laughing Goose. Forehead white or yellowish white, followed by a narrow dark band ; chinthe same ; head, hind neck and nape brownish grey, shaded in some speci-mens with reddish ; throat pale greyish white, darker in some ; breast andflanks pale brownish, with cross bars of black, paler and whitish on the lowerbreast, with broader black bars ; back dark greyish brown, the feathers withpale reddish brown edges ; upper and under tail coverts white ; tail with themiddle feathers dark grey, tipped with white ; the lateral ones entirely
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