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191. S. JAVANICA. 



Very common. 



192. S. MiNUTA. (Lesser Tern.) 



Seen once or twice on the Gogra ; always (like all the Terns) 

 in the cold season. 



193. Pelecanus javanicus. 



Very common on large jhccls and on rivers in the rainy 

 seasons, and settles on trees. Most of those which I saw were 

 in the immature plumage. 



194. GrACULUS PYGMyEUS. 



Extremely numerous on rivers, particularly during the cold 

 season. 



195. Plotus melanogaster. (" Snake Bird "of Europeans.) 

 So called from its appearance when swimming, the whole of 



the body being submerged, and only the snake-like head and 

 neck being seen. This Darter is exceedingly common in some 

 localities during the cold season, preferring rivers and deep 

 jheels. In the Terai I have seen as many as twenty sitting on 

 a dead tree, which was quite white from their dung. 



196. Anser cinereus. (Grey-lag Goose.) 



Arrives in November, and departs about the end of February ; 

 is during that time very common, frequenting large jheels more 

 than rivers, whereas the Barred Goose [Bernicla indica) resorts 

 more to rivers, and is not nearly so good a bird for the table as 

 the Grey-lag. 



A single specimen of some species of Goose, which, from the 

 description given me, I imagine to have been a Grey-lag, was 

 seen on Nynee Tal in Kumaon, about the beginning of May 

 1859, probably en route from the plains to the cooler regions of 

 the Thibetan lakes. 



197. Anser brachyrhynchus. (Pink-footed Goose.) 



I saw a specimen of this Goose, killed at Alumbagh in 

 January 1858. According to Mr. Blyth, it has also occurred in 

 the Punjab. 



198. Anser minutus, Naum. (Little White-fronted Goose.) 

 On the 24th of October, 1859, near Seetapore, in Oudh, I 



