602 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on Birds 



108. Phalacrocorax carbo. 



Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.); David & Oiistal. Ois. Chines 

 p. 532 (1877) ; Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 310, fig. 1 

 (1898). 



a. S ad- Yuan-cliu, Wu-lio River, West Hunan, 

 22 December, 1898. 



Iris blue. Total length 32 inches. 



109. Merganser squamatus. (Plate XII.) 

 Merganser squamatus Gould ; David & Oustal. Ois. Chine, 



p. 511 (1877); Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 478 

 (1895). 



a, b. cJ ? ad. Chien-yang, Yuan River, South-west 

 Hunan, 9 December, 1898. 



Iris dark brown. 



This species was hitherto known only from an immature 

 male described by Gould in 1864. Capt. Wingate having 

 now procured an adult male and female of this splendid 

 Merganser, I take the opportunity of giving the following 

 description : — 



Adult male. Resembles M. castor \i\ having the head and 

 neck black glossed with dark green ; the chest and rest of 

 the underparts white, washed with pale salmon-buff. It 

 differs from M. castor and from all other species of the genus 

 in bavins; the black of the head continued down the middle 

 of the back of the neck to the interscapular region, while 

 the lower back and rump, as well as the longer feathers of 

 the sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts, are white, with one 

 or two narrow concentric black bands, producing an elegant 

 scaled appearance. It resembles M. serrator in having two 

 long crests, one situated on the occipital and the other on 

 the nuchal region, the longest feathers of each measuring 

 respectively 4'4 and 4'3 inches ; and the exposed basal half 

 of the outer webs of the secondaries and their coverts black, 

 forming two black bars across the wing. From M. serrator, 

 to which, perhaps, it is most nearly allied, it may be at once 

 distinguished by the uniform colour of the chest, as well as 



