312 PROCELLARID^. 



" In full bfeeding plumage the sides and flanks are very strongly 

 streaked with orange red, and the parts indicated as speckled with 

 white are entirely black ; in the winter plumage the colours are duller 5 

 the front of the neck is an earthy brown; and the whole of those por- 

 tions^ indicated as speckled with white, are pure white ; the orange 

 red tuft behind the eye is entirely wanting. — {Hume. Str. F. i. 267.) 



" In all the bills were black ; the irides vermilion, and the legs 

 and feet greenish plumbeous interiorly, and blackish exteriorly. 



'' Length. — 12 to 13 inches, expanse 22"6 to 24*5, wing 6-2 to 5'6, 

 tarsus 2-9 to 3-2, bill at gape 3'6 to 4." 



Hah. — Sind and the Mekran Coasts ; common about the mouths of 

 the Indus. Whether this species is distinct from auritus or not has to 

 be finally settled. In vol. i. Str. F. Mr. Hume gives some charac- 

 ters which distinguish auritus from this species, and thinks that " it 

 differs in certain details of colouration and in shape of bill sufficient 

 to justify separation." 



Podiceps minor, Linn.; P. B. 905; Gould. B. Eur. pi. 392. 

 l^udiceps phillipousis, Gm. ; Jenl. B. Iml. iii. p. 822 ; Str. F. i. 268 j 

 iv. 203 ; Murray, Ildhk., Zuol., S,-c., Sind, p. 242. — The Little Grebe 

 or Dab-Chick. 



Crown of the head and nape dark blackish brown, or sepia brown, 

 p'lossed with greenish ; sides of the face, neck on the sides and in 

 front, chestnut red ; chin dull black ; breast sepia brown, mixed with 

 white; flanks pale ferruginous; rest of under parts silky white; under 

 wing-coverts buff; primaries pale brown, buffy white basally ; second- 

 aries white, margined with brown ; back, scapulars and tertials glossy 

 brownish black, with a greenish tinge ; bill blackish, paler at the base; 

 irides red brown; legs greenish black or dusky green. 



Length, — 8 to 9 inches, wing 4, bill at front 0*75, tarsus r25. 



Hah. — Throughout India, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, Eastern 

 Turkistan and Nepaul. 



Family, PROCELLARID^,— Petrels, &c. 



Bill long, straight, compressed, very deeply grooved, tip strong, 

 arched and hooked ; nostrils tubular, situated at the base of the bill, 

 and exposed. 



Sub-Family, PROCELLAEINiE,— Stormy Petrels. 



Nostrils at base of keel, divided by a septum ; hind toe generally 

 present ; bill slender, compressed ; tarsus moderate. 



Oceanites. — Keijs and Bias. 



Bill short and slender, curved at the tip ; tail forked ; wings long, 

 second quill longest; tibia partially naked. 



