IMPORTANT ADDITIONS TO THE INDIAN AVIFAUNA. 755 



In the normal bill of the Whooperthe black of the apical portion of 

 ihe upper mandible does not extend half way up, or not more than half 

 way up, and also does not extend along the commissure to the gape. 

 In the present specimen of bewicki the black extends in mottling well 

 beyond the nostrils both above and below ; the edge of the forehead 

 is black and the black of the commissure extends up to and round the 

 gape, the whole of the lower mandible being black, an unusual feature 

 even in bewicki. 



In forwarding the skin to the Bombay Natural History Society 

 Mr. McCulloch writes " shot by me here in Jacobabad on 2nd 

 December 1907. This swan was by itself on a shallow piece of 

 water in the centre of a piece of jungle. It had been there some ten 

 days before I shot it." 



