. Indian sporting birds . cies {Cygnopsis cygnoides) so wellknown as ornamental birds in our parks. This black-billedbrown goose is found wild in Eastern Asia, and may hereafterbe found to occur m the east of our Empire in that condition. The grey goose is the only common goose in India besidesthe bar-headed, and, like that bird, is only a winter visitor ; allalong the northern Indian and Burmese provinces it is common,but its numbers bear no comparison to those of the bar-headexcept in Sind ; in Gujarat, however, it is the only kind the bar-head, it visits Kashmir and parts of the
. Indian sporting birds . cies {Cygnopsis cygnoides) so wellknown as ornamental birds in our parks. This black-billedbrown goose is found wild in Eastern Asia, and may hereafterbe found to occur m the east of our Empire in that condition. The grey goose is the only common goose in India besidesthe bar-headed, and, like that bird, is only a winter visitor ; allalong the northern Indian and Burmese provinces it is common,but its numbers bear no comparison to those of the bar-headexcept in Sind ; in Gujarat, however, it is the only kind the bar-head, it visits Kashmir and parts of the Himalayasat a moderate altitude. Its southern limit for the most partis that of the Gangetic plain. It is, if anything, more gregarious than the bar-headed goose,flocks of upwards of a thousand being seen on the west, where itis most abundant; these flocks in flight observe the usual Vformation and travel with a rapid but stately flight. They getunder way slowly, and Mr. E. C. S. Baker advises that when cinereus on IDLjJCCUJ Lu]CO z GREY OR GOOSE 63 stalking tbem one should put in ones first barrel at them onthe ground, and give them the second as they rise. Althoughwild geese are often much less wary in India than they pro-verbially are in Europe, they will be found to need carefulstalking where natives have guns, and in such places it is of nouse getting ones self up as a native in a blanket disguise,a bullock used as a stalking-horse being much better. They may also be shot when by the side of rivers by glidingdown on them in a boat, as mentioned in the case of bar-headedgeese, but there must be some arrangement to conceal theshooters head. They keep more on the shore than in the water,and walk well, if not so gracefully as the bar-heads; they arealso fast swimmers, and dive freely in play or when wounded,but cannot keep under long. Having the same vegetarian habitsas geese in general, and bemg often so numerous, they are onlysecond as crop ravagers to
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