NETTAPUS. 185 



short; toes stout and palmate; hind toe simple or lol)ate. Eggs six to 

 one dozen or more, white, cream-color, or light buff; nest usually lined 

 with down from the breast of the old bird : young covered with down and 

 able to swirn at birth.* 



Family ANATID^. 



Characters same as those given for the Order. 



i<tibfa)}iilies. 



a\ Smaller; oiilmen le.ss than 25 mm.; throat, breast, and abdomen white. 



Plectropterin* (p. 185) 

 a-. Larger; ciilmen more than 32 mm.: tliroat. breast, and abdomen not imiform 

 in color. 

 h^. Head, neck, and breast not of a uniform color; no occipital crest. 



Anatinae (p. 187) 



b'\ Head, neck, and breast brownish black, in adult male glossy black; adult 



male with a pointed occipital crest Marilinae (p. 197) 



Subfamily PLECTROPTERIN^E. 



Genus XETTAPUS Brandt, 1836. 



Members of this genus are distinguished by their small size and short 

 stout bill. 



154. NETTAPUS COROM ANDELI ANUS (Gmelini. 



INDIAN DWARF GOOSE. 



Anas coromancieliinta Gmelix, Syst. Xat. ( 17S8), 1, pt. 2, 522. 



Nettopus corottiandelianus Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1805), 27, 

 68; Blanford, Faima Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 43;i. tig. 110 (head); 

 Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 209; Oatks, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 

 2, 144; McGregor and \Vor(Ester, Hand-List (190(i), 3t>. 



Pa-ti-lt, Manila. 



Luzon {Zelebor, Worcester, Mc(lregor) . Indian IVninsnia. liurmese countries, 

 Greater Sunda Islands, China, Celebes. 



"Adult male in summer. — Forehead, crown, and nape hair-brown, the 

 former darkest ; remainder of head, whole neck, and lower plumage white : 

 a broad collar round the neck black in front, glossy green behind ; white 

 of breast produced round the neck and forming another collar below 

 the black one; back, scapulars, rump, tertiaries, and wing-coverts deej) 



■* All of the species of ducks here enumerated, except Marila marila. are repre- 

 sented in tile Bureau of Science coHection l>v specimens taken in the Philippine 

 ishuuls. but witli the excejjtion of tlie abundant Dendrocj/iinn (ircuata these art- 

 adults only, in winter plumage. I have constructed keys and diagnoses from tliis 

 material but for detailed desii i]>tions I have depeniled almost entirely upon 

 Salvadori's monograph in voluuif 27 of the Catalogue of Birds in the British 

 Museum. 



