412 Mr, A. Hume un Indian Ornitholofjij. 



and lower tail-coverts, and the extreme tip of the chin pare 

 white. 



Habitat. Hill Tipperah. 



I have lately received from Capt. Unwin, of the 5tli Goorkhas, 

 a pair of Swans, killed on the 17th January 1871 at the Jubbee 

 stream, on the borders of the Hazara and Rawulpindee districts. 

 Swans appear to be regular annual visitants to this locality and 

 several other places lying between Rawulpindee and the western 

 limits of the Peshawur Valley. Neither of these Swans is adult. 

 The general colour of the lower surface is a dull white ; of the 

 upper whitey-brown. The crown and occiput wood-brown ; 

 the greater ])ortiou of the wing, the scapulars, and rump are 

 wood- or sandy brown. There is nowhere any trace of a " sooty 

 grey/' The brown is essentially a buffy or sandy brown, though 

 here and there, as in the feathers of the base of the neck, a faint 

 greyish shade is intermingled. 



These birds are therefore clearly not the Polish Swan, which 

 is white at all ages. The bill exhibits no trace of a tubercle ; 

 the feathers of the forehead are prolonged to a point, only very 

 slightly truncated. The colouring of the soft parts was carefully 

 noted in the fresh specimen by Capt. Unwin, and even in the 

 dried specimen is clearly distinguishable. If from each side of 

 the frontal tongue of feathers, about half an inch from its point, 

 a slightly curving line be drawn to a point on the edge of the 

 upper mandible about a quarter of an inch from the gape, the 

 whole of the space enclosed by such line between it and the eye 

 is perfectly black. At the extreme point of the frontal feathers, 

 again, is a black band about a quarter of an inch wide, which 

 extends right and left over the whole narial space. The nail is 

 black ; the rest of the bill was light grey. The legs and feet, I 

 may add, were greyish black. Both male and female, though 

 diflfering somewhat in size, are precisely similar both as regards 

 plumage and coloration of the bill. The bill is slightly spatulate. 

 In the male the upper mandible is I'l" wide opposite the nostrils, 

 and 1'23" wide near the tip. The following are dimensions of 

 both birds measured in the flesh : — 



Male. Length 55-5 inches; expanse 84-37 ; wing 23-12; tail 

 from \ent 8'5 ; bill at front, straight from termination of frontal 



