VOOUS KH (1963) A new record of Sushkin. LIMOSA 36 (3): 149-151.

Sushkin's Goose Anser neglectus = Anser fabalis neglectus The description is given of a more than one year old male specimen of Bean Goose with bright pink instead of orange coloration of bill and feet, caught out of a flock of about 40 Bean Geese of unknown colour type, on 25 January 1963, Bokhoven, near's Hertogenbosch, province of Noord Brabant, and ringed and released on 30 January 1963. The bird was very large (wing about 493, culmen about 67 mm), had a long, stocky neck, and a shape of bill corresponding with that of the elongated, but robust forest type, with extensive, though irregularly shaped black markings at the whole base of the bill. This is the second record in the Netherlands of the colour type known as Sushkin's Bean Goose (Anser "neglectus" Sushkin). The first (27 February 1930, Lemmer, provo of Friesland; Van den Brink 1930 a en b, with colour plate in The Ibis, 1930, PI. XXI) probably representing the "neglectus"-mutation of the more and more rare, slender-billed western Forest Bean Goose (Anser fabalis fabalis), the present record probably representing a similar mutation of the more heavy-billed western Siberian Forest Bean Goose (Anser fabalis johanseni).

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