2. ptoTus. 415 



[Ceylon] ; Walden Sf Layard, Ibis, 1872, p. 96 [Xegros I.] ; Hume, 

 Nests i^- E(j(/s Ind. B. p. 061 (1873); id. Sfr. F. i. pp. 121,133, 

 289 (1873) [Sind] ; Adam, Sir. F. i. p. 403 (1873) [Sambhur Lake] : 

 Ball, Sir. F. ii. p. 440 (1874) [Cliota Xagpur] ; Salvad. Ucc. Borneo, 

 p. 307 (1874) ; Hume, Sfr. F. ii. p. 484 (1874) [Tenasseriiu], iii. 

 p. 194 (1875) [Pegu]; Leiiye, Ibis, 1875, p. 409 [Ceylon] ; Blyth 

 cV Walden, Cat. Mamm. ^- B. Burma, p. 105 (1875); Butler, Sir. 

 F. iv. pp. 34, 35 (1876) [Mt. Aboo& N. Guzerat] ; Fairbatik, Str. 

 F. iv. p. 264 (1870) [Deccan liivers] ; Gates, Str. F. v. p. 170 

 (1877) [Pegu, nesting] ; Hume ^- Davison, Str.F. vi. p. 496 (1878) 

 [Tenasserim] ; Davidson ^- Wenden, Str. F. vii. p. 94 (1878) 

 [Deccan] ; Hume, Str. F. vii. p. 98 (1878) [Oodeypore] ; Ball, Str. 

 F. vii. p. 234 (1878) [Ganges to Godaveri] ; Anders. B. W. 

 Ymman, p. 698 (1878); Cripps, Str. F. vii. p. 315 (1878) 

 [Faridpur] ; Scully, Str. F. viii. p. 364 (1879) [Nepal] ; Doiff, Str. 

 F. viii. p. 372 (1879) [E. Xami, breeding]: Butler, Cat. B. Sind, 

 p. 82 (1879) ; Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 145 [Celebes] ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 

 1879, p. 353 [Labuan] ; Vidal, Str. F. ix. p. 90 (1880) [S. Konkan] ; 

 Butler, Str. F. ix. p. 442 (1880) [Deccan & Maliratta country] ; 

 Legge, B. Ceylon, iii. p. 1194 (1880) ; Reid, Sir. F. x. p. 88 (1881 ) 

 [Lucknow]; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 248 (1882) [Pegu]; Davidsou, 

 Str. F. X. p. 327 (1882) [W. Kbandeish] ; Kelham, Ibis, 1882, 

 p. 203 [Malacca, Perak]; Davison, Str. F. x. p. 419 (1883) 

 [Wynaad & S. Mysore] ; Parker, Ibis, 1883, p. 194 [Cevlon, Feb. 

 to April, breeding] ; Blasius, J.f. 0. 1883, p. 140 [Celebes] ; Oate.-', 

 B. Burmah, ii. p. 235 (1883) ; Swinh. Sf Barnes, Ibis, 1885, 

 p. 138 [Central India] ; Tristram, Ibis, 1880, p. 41 ; Blasius, Zeit. 

 ges. Orn. iii. pp. 175, 209 (1880) [Celebes] ; Whitehead, Ibis, 1888, 

 p. 412 [Borneo] ; Hume, Sfr. F. xi. p. 353 (1888) [Sylhet, CacLar, 

 Manipur]; Hartert, J.f. O. 1889, p. 407 [Salanga]; Everett, J. 

 Str. Br. As. Soc. xx. p. 188 (1889) [Borneo] ; Oates, ed. Hume's 

 Nests ^- Eggs, iii. p. 274 (1890) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1890, pp. 149, 285 

 [N. Borneo] ; Hartert, J. f. O. 1891, p. 302 [Mindoro] ; Hose, 

 Ibis, 1893, p. 420 [Sarawak]. 



Anhinga nielanogaster, Pennant, Ind. Zool. 2nd ed. p. 53, pi. 15 

 (1790). 



Plotus levaiUanti, Grif. (nee Licht.) ed. Cuv. iii. pi. facing p. 656 

 (1829) ; Meneville, Icon. Req. Anim., Ois. pi. 05. fig. 1 (1829-38) : 

 Ewer, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 93 [N.W. of Bengal]. 



Plotus novfB-hollandiffi, G. R. Gray (nee Gould), Gen. B. iii. 

 pi. clxxxiv. (1848); Reichenb. Natatores, pi. xxxv." nos. 2648-9 

 (1850). 



Adult male. Chiu, throat, and upper part of the fore-neck mottled 

 with white ; a narrow white line, about five inches long, com- 

 mencing above the gape and continued down the sides of the neck : 

 head and neck brown, darker and slightly glossed on the crown and 

 along the back of the neck, and paler down the middle of the fore-neck, 

 each feather being margined with pale brown and giving the whole 

 a finely scaled appearance ; upper back brownish black, each feather 

 narrowly margined with rufescent and streaked with white on the 

 lateral parts ; .rest of back, rump, lower part of fore-neck, and under- 

 parts black with an oil-grcen gloss; M'ing- coverts, scapulars, and 

 innermost secondaries black, each with a long silvery-white streak 

 down the middle ; scapulars much elongate and pointed, the longest 

 measuring about 9 inches ; the innermost secondary transversely 



