518 PODICIPEDID^, 



4. Podicipes albescens. 



Podiceps albescens, Manddli MS.,Jide Blauf. 8tr. F. v. p. 486 (1877) 

 [Native Sikhim] ; Blanf. Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, iv. p. 476 (1898). 



Adult in hreeding-plumage. General colour above white ; fore- 

 head, fore-part of the crown, chin, throat, and cheeks blackish ; hind 

 part of the head and nape, as well as the fore-neck, rich chestnut ; 

 feathers of the upper back and scapulars with dark-brown shaft- 

 streaks ; wing-coverts uniform white ; primaries ash-brown, whitish 

 towards the base, especially on the innermost; secondaries white, 

 with dark shafts, the two or three outermost blotched with the 

 same colour towards the extremity ; humerals white, with the inner 

 web mostly ash ; rest of underparts pure shining white. Total 

 length about 7'5 inches, culmen from feathers on forehead 0*75, 

 wing 3-7, tarsus 1"25, outer toe and claw 1"75. 



Hah. Native Sikhim. 



a. Ad. sk. Native Sikhim, North India, Hume Coll. (Type 



Feb. [L. ]\Iandc'Ui). of the species.) 



5. Podicipes pelzelni. 



Podiceps pelzelnii. Hart/. Orn. Madar/asc. p. 83 (1861) [Madagascar] j 

 Sdater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 105 ; Bocl! S>- F. Neivton, Ibis, 1863, p. 175; 

 Neivton, Ibis, 1863, p. 400 ; iSchle<j. i)- FoUeii, Eec/t. Madiu/asc. pt. ii, 

 pp. 151, 160, pi. xl. (1808); Grandid. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1808, 

 p. 6 ; Shmye, P. Z. S. 1872. p. 809 ; Bartlett, F. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 773. 



Podiceps minor, var. pelzelni, O'rondid. Hist. 3Iadaffasc., Ois. p. 710 

 pis. cclxxvi.-vii. (1885). 



Tachybaptes fluviatilis pelzelni, Hibree, Ibis, 1892, p. 273. 



Adult in hreeding-plumage. General colour of the upper parts 

 dark sooty-brown ; forehead, top of the head, and back of the neck 

 nearly black and slightly glossed with greenish ; chin, throat, and 

 cheeks pure white, shading into dull whitish biown on the base 

 of the fore-neck ; a chestni;t patch on each side of the neck, com- 

 mencing behind the ear-coverts and extending along the sides of the 

 hind-neck for about two-thirds of its length ; sides of lower back 

 and rump pure white, some of the lateral feathers tinged with 

 rufous ; upper part of chest, sides, flanks, and lower belly sooty- 

 brown ; rest of underparts pure white ; primaries brown, with the 

 basal part especially of the inner web white, the amount of white 

 gradually increasing so that the eleventh quill is white M'ith a 

 brown extremity ; secondaries white, with a broad brown band on 

 the margin of the outer web, and a brown subterminal blotch on 

 the inner web of some or most of the quills: " iris dark brown " 

 (C Meller). Total length about 9-5 incnea, culmen from feathers 

 on forehead 0"85-0"95, wing 4-4-25, tarsus 1-4, outer toe and 

 claw 1'7. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



«, Ad. sk. S.E. Madagascar. A. Grossley, Esq. [0.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Betsileo. Rev. J. Shaw [0.]. 



c. Skeleton. Madagascar, April 13. Dr. Forsyth Major [P.]. 



