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PODICIPEBID.E. 



Podiceps minor, Sivinlioe {nee GmeL), P. Z. S. 1803, p. 322 [China ; 



Foimosa] ; id. Ihis, 1863, p. 433, ]8Go, p. 541 [Formosa] ; id. P. Z. S. 



1871, p. 415 [Hainan]; Styan, Ihis, 1891, pp. 331, 510 [Lower 



Yangtse]. 

 Tachybaptes fluviatilis. La Touche {nee Ticnst.), Ibis, 1892, p. 503 



[Foocliow & vSwatow]. 

 Tachybaptes philippinensis. Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 472 [N. Luzon]. 



Adult in hreeding-plumarie. Differs from P. Jiuviatilis in having 

 the rufous of the face continued right up to the eye and over the 

 greater part of the throat, leaving only the chin and a small portion 

 of the upper throat blackish ; breast and abdomen mostly silvery- 

 ■white and but slightly mottled with blackish ; the inner secondaries 

 with the inner web and tip white and the rest of the outer web 

 brown. Iris straw-yellow ; bill black, whitish at the tip ; naked 

 skin at the base of the bill and between the rami of the mandible 

 pale greenish yellow; legs blackish grey, with a slight tinge of 

 green {R. Sivinhoe). 



Adtdt in ivinter phimage. Is .similar to P. Jiuviatilis, hnt differs in 

 the greater amount of white in the primaries. 



Hah. South China, ranging south to Burma, Formosa, Philippine 

 Islands, Hainan, and Borneo. 



b. 



Imra. sk. 



J ad. sk.* 



c,d. d $ ad. sk.* 

 e,f. 2 ad. sk.* 



ff. Ad. sk. 



//-/. Ad. et imm. sk. 



m. Ad. sk. 

 w. 5 ad. sk. 



0. Ad. sk. 



p. Ad. sk. 



q. Ad. sk. 



r,s. 2 ad. etinini.sli. 



t. Ad. sk. 



H'. c? ad. sk. 

 V. 2 ad. sk. 

 w. Ad. sk. 



.V. Ad. sk. 

 1/. Ad. sk. 

 2, a'. Juv. sk. 



b', c. Ad. sk.* 



Burma (Hauf/hton). 

 Tounghu, July 3 {E. G. 



Wardlaw Ramsay). 

 Lower Pegu, May. 

 Thaniban,Thatone, Nov., 



Dec. ( If. iJavison). 

 Hainan, Feb. {Ji. Swin/ioe) 

 Amoy, China, Jan., Nov. 



(E. S.). 

 Canton. 

 Yangtse Eiver, Feb. 



Pa-chow, Ichang, Dec. 

 Hankow, autumn (J?. .S'.). 

 Hankow, autumn (E. S.). 

 Kiukiang, April, Oct. 

 Kiu-kiang, Oct. (F. W. 



Styan). 

 Ningpo Ivake. 

 Chekiang (E. S.). 

 Formosa. 



Formosa, summer {E. S.). 

 S.W. Formosa {E. S.). 

 Mt. Data, Lepanto, N.W. 

 Luzon, Jan. 13 {J. TV.). 



Laguna de Bai, Luzon 

 {Maitland Heriot). 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



E.W.Oates,E.sq [C.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Capt. T. Blakiston 



[P.]. 

 E.A.Pratt,E.sq.[C.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 F.W. Styan, Esq. [P.]. 

 Seebohm CoD. 



Gould Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll 

 F. W. St van, 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Subscribers to 

 ^^'hitehead Exped 



[P.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Esq. 



the 



* An adult male from Tounghu, two adult females iu breeding-plumage 

 from Lower Pegu and Tliatone respectively, and an adult in full breeding- 

 plumage from Luzon, have the white on the secondary-quills much develojjed. 

 These are apparently hybrids between the Indian and Chinese forms. 



