23. DENDEOCTCNA. 151 



P. Z. S. 1867, p. 1046 (Madagascar, Zool. Gard.) ; Schlei/. S,- Poll. 



Heck. Faun. Maday. p. 161 (1868); \Btyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 176 



( = fulva) ; HeuyL Oni. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 1303 (1873) ; Gieb. Thes. 



Orn. ii. p. 31 (Madagascar) (1875) ; Ilartl. Vog. Madag. p. 359 



(1877) ; Sibree, Ibis, l'892, p. 1^70 (Madagascar). 

 Dendrocjgna africana, G. Ii. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 79, n. 10609 (1871) ; 



Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 1304 (1873); id. op. cit. Nachtr. 



p. cxcix (1871). 

 Deiidrocvgna fulva, Finsch ^- Ilartl. Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 808 (Senaar ; 



Kordofan) (1870) ; Heuyl. On,. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 1301 (1873) ; id. 



op. cit. Naclitr. p. cxcix (1871 !) ; Sclat. &i Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, 



p. 372 (part.) (Madagascar); Hartl. Abh. Brem. 1882, p. 216 



(Lado) ; Holub ^- Peh. Beitr. Orn. S.-Afr. p. 328 (1882) ; Salvad. 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) i. p. 243 (Shoa) (1884) ; Dtibois, Bull. 



Mils. Roy. d'H. N. de Belg. iv. p. 149, n. 191 (188G) (Tanganyika) ; 



Mchnw. J.f. O. 1887, p. 46 (Kagelii) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 



Gen. (2) vi. p. 320 (Shoa) (1888) ; Rchnw. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. 



p. 27 (1894). 

 Dendrocycna major, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 510 (East Africa, Mada- 

 gascar). 

 Dendrocjgna arcuata, var. major, Milne-Edic. S)- Grand. Ois. Madag. 



p. 731, pi. cclxxii. (bird), cclxxiii., cclxxiv. (osteology), cclxxv. a. 



f. o (head) (1882). 



India. 



DendrocYgna major, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xii. p. 218, n. 377 (1840); 



id. III. hid. Orn. pi. 23 (1843) ; G. R. Gr. List Sjjec. B. Br. Mus. 



iii. p. 131 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 612, n. 2 (1845) ; Hartl. Frst. 



Nachtr. Vogelsamml. p. 19, n. 218 (1840) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. 



A. S. B. p. 301, n. 1761 (1849) (Lower Bengal) ; Rchtib. Syn. Av., 



Natatores, t. 100. f. 2768 (ez Jerdon) (1850) ; Jerd. B. of Ind. iii. 



p. 790 (syn. emend.) (1864) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 300 (India) ; 



Bh/th, Ibis, 1865, p. 39 (India), 180C,, p. 140 (India) ; Schley. Mus. 



P.'-B., Anseres, p. 90 (1866) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 175 ; Fyt. Syn. 



Anat. p. 59 (svn. emend.) (1869) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 79, 



n. 10611 (1871') ; Hume, Nests and Eyys, p. 640 (1873) ; Gieb. Thes. 



Orn. ii. p. 31 (India) (1875) ; Hume, Str. Feath. iii. p. 193 (Upper 



Pegu) (1875) ; Sclat. ^- Salv. P. Z S. 1876, p. 373 ; Wardl. Rams. 



Ibis, 1877, p. 472 ; Rrh7iw. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 22 ; Sclat. List 



Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 427 (1883). 

 Dendrocygna arcuata, var. major, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 649, 



n. 53 a (1856). 

 Dendrocygna fulva, Sclat. S,- Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 372 (India) ; 



HumeU; Davis. Str. Feath. vi. p. 488 (1878) ; Hume, Str. Feath. 



vii. p. 463 (1879), viii. p. 115, n. 953 (1879); Legge, B. of Ceyl. 



p. 1069, Obs. (1880) ; Hume ^- Marsh. Game Birds, iii. p. 119, 



pi. 16 (1880); Parker, Str. Feath. ix. p. 487 (1881); Gates, Str. 



Feath. X. p. 245 (1882) ; id. B. Br. Burmah, ii. p. 274 (1883) ; 



Hume, Nests .^- Eqqs (Gates' ed.), iii. p. 286 (1890) ; Hartert, Kat. 

 Voyelsamml. p. 228, n. 3386 (Calcutta) (1891). 

 Dendrocvcna major, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 510 (India) ; Rchnw. 

 Viig. d. zool. Giirt. p. 59 (1882) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 51 



(Kurrachee) (1889). 



Adult. Head, neck, and lower parts deep reddish ochraceous, 

 passing into cinnamon on the flanks, where the longer feathers have 



