60 ANATID^. 



tail, in the conformation of the feet, but has tio comb ; the bill is 

 somewhat larger and flatter. 



Range. From Assam and Eastern Bengal to Java. 



1. Asarcornis scutulata. 



Anas scutulata, S. Miill. Verh. Land- en Volkenk. p. 159 (Java) 



(1839-44) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Anseres, p. 64 (Java) (1866) ; 



Sdat. ^ Wolf, Zool. Sketches, ii. pi. xlix. (1867) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. 



i. p.- 361 (1872) ; Hume, Str. Feath. viii. p. 158 (Kussoom) (1879) ; 



Vordenn. N. T. N. I. xlix. p. 419 (1889), li. p. 246 (Sumatra) 



(1891). 

 Sarcidiornis leucopterus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii. p. 820 (Burma) 



(1849) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 302, u. 1764 (1849). 

 Casarca leucoptera, " Blyth," Jard. Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 141, pi. 64 



(Mei'gui) ; Rchnh. Syoi. Av., Natatores, t. Ill c. f. 2947 (ex Jardine) 



(1850) ; Bj). Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 649, n. 50 (1856) ; Gould, 



P. Z. S. 1859, p. 150 (Tenasserim) ; Jerd. B. of Ind. iii. p. 793 



(1864) ; Eyt. Sijn. Anat. p. 58 (1869) ; Godwm-Aust. J. A. S. B. 



xliii. p. 176 (Dinapur, Dunsuri R.) (1874) ; Blyth, B. of Burma, 



p. 165 (1875) ; Hume ^- Davis. Str. Feath. vi. p. 489 (1878) ; 



Hume, Str. Feath. viii. p. 170 (Kussoom) (1879). 

 Anas moschata, part, Bp. Compit. Rend, xliii. p. 549 (1856). 

 Casarca scutulata, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 176 (Brahmaputra), 1870, 



p. 176 ; Hume, Str. Feath. viii. p. 115, n. 955 (1879). 

 Casarka scutellata, Fyt. Syti. Anat. p. 57 (1809). 

 Anas scutellata, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 82, n. 10645 (1871) 



(Mergui, Moluccas !). 

 Anas leucoptera, Hutne ^ Marsh, (nee Gni.) Game-B. of Ind. iii. 



pp. 147, 172, pi. 20 (1880) ; Simson, Ibis, 1882, p. 92 ; Oates, B. of 



Burmah, ii. p. 281 (1883); Hume, Nests ^ Egys [Oates ed.) ii'i. 



p. 287 (1890). 

 Tadorna scutulata, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 612 ; Salvad. Or7i. Pap. 



e Mot. iii. p. 393 (1882) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 50 (Sumatra) 



(1889). 

 Vulpanser scutulata, Rchnw. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 36. 



Adult male ('?). Head and upper part of the neck white, thickly 

 mottled with black, as in Sarcidiornis mclanonota ; the black spots 

 more numerous on the upper part of the head and hind neck ; lower 

 part of the neck and mantle glossj^ black, mixed with brown-chest- 

 nut in front, the same colour covers the breast and abdomen ; under 

 tail-coverts brown ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and scapulars 

 olive-brown ; the feathers of the back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts glossed with bluish and green ; smaller upper wing-coverts 

 white, the median ones bluish grey or lead-colour, broadly tipped 

 with black ; ((uills olive-brown, but secondaries with the outer web 

 bluish grey, forming a distinct speculum ; tertials olive-brown, the 

 first one white on the outer half of the outer web, margined outwardlj' 

 with black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the former 

 mixed with brown feathers ; tail dull brown-olive : bill ochreous 

 red ; feet reddish. Total length about 28 inches, wing 15, tail 6*5, 

 culmen 2-5, tarsus 2-3. 



Female. Similar to the male, but somewhat smaller and less 



