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Hab. Asia aiul its archipelago. Extremely common tlirougli- 

 out India. 



A. B. Adults in breeding dress (with white coronal 

 spot). C. Do. do., younger (no coronal spot). D. E. 

 Do., winter dress. F. Half-grown puUus (then bald- 

 headed, and the body clad with black down). All from 

 the vicinity of Calcutta (1842-4). 



Genus Plotus, L. 



1749. Pi., melanogaster, Gmelin. 



Syn. pi. VaiUantii of India, auctorum. 



Banwa, and Pan Dubbi, II. ; Goyar, B. ; Teng' 

 c/yee, Arakan ; Bandany Ayer, Sum. 

 Hab. S. E. Asia and its archipelago. Common throughout 

 India. 



A. Male, in breeding dress (gular skin dusky, throat 

 speckled over with black feathers). B. Do., winter dress. 

 C Female, do. I). Young (covered with white down). 

 All from the vicinity of Calcutta (1843-G). 



Tribe LAMELLIROSTRES. 



Fam. ANAT1D.E. 



Huns (root of Anser, ike), II. 

 Subfam. PIICENICOPTERINiE. 

 Genus Phcenicopterus, L. 



1/50. Ph. roseus, Pallas, 



Syn. Ph. antiquiis, Temminck. 



Boy-hdns (' Heron Goose'), H. ; Kaan Thuntr, B. 

 Hab. Warmer regions of the old continent. Common in parts 

 of India. 



A. Fine male. From Algeria. M. Malherbe (1848). 

 B. Another. Upper Provinces. Presented (alive) by 

 Mr, J. J. Athanass (1843). C. Young. Calcutta bazar.' 

 Society's old collection. 



Smaller Indian Flamingo. Female of last ?* Ph. 

 minor (?), Vieillot. (Leg but 17 or 18 instead of 23 

 or 24 in. In other respects similar ; the bill scarcely 

 smaller, and the wing but 1 in. shorter than in the long- 

 legged specimens). B. Adult female. E. Younger do. 

 F. Do. do. (rusty-headed, as common in various other 

 Anatidce). Calcutta bazar (1843-b). G. H. Young, also 

 from Calcutta bazar. Society's old collection. 



* Of several specimens of different ages obtained from the Calcutta bazar, all 

 were females, and h id the same length of leg. Two long-legged specimens exa- 

 mined, both from the Upper Provinces, were both males. On the other baud, Mr. 

 Jerdon mentions a small Indian race, appearing in separate flocks. — Madras Journ. 

 XII, 217. 



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