202 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
area just back of angle of gonys solid yellow; upper mandible blackish 
brown; lower mandible white witQgferminal third dusky brown; legs and 
nails black. Length, 850; wing,"545; tail, 180; culmen, 66; tarsus, 60; 
middle toe with claw, 85. 
Family ANHINGIDZ. 
Bill long, slender, straight, and sharply pointed, cutting edges near 
tip with distinct serrations; head small; neck long and slender; tail long ; 
scapular feathers lanceolate; a pair of inner secondaries and the inner- 
most pair of rectrices with outer webs pliciform. 
Genus ANHINGA Brisson, 1760. 
Characters same as those given for the Family. 
167. ANHINGA MELANOGASTER Pennant. 
INDIAN DARTER. 
Anhinga melanogaster PENNANT, Indian Zool. (1769), 13, pl. 12; McGrercor 
and WoRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 39. 
Plotus melanogaster GRANT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1898), 26, 414; BLan- 
FORD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 344, fig. 78; SHarpE, Hand-List 
(1899), 1, 236; OarEs, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 207. 
Ca-si-li, Manila, also used for the cormorant. 
Luzon (Meyer, McGregor); Mindanao (Mearns, Clemens); Mindoro (Steere 
HLap., Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, Porter); Negros (Layard). 
Mesopotamia, Indian Peninsula, Indo-Chinese countries, Indo-Malay Peninsula, 
Borneo, Celebes. 
“Adult male-—Chin, throat, and upper part of fore neck mottled with 
white; a narrow white line, about 125 mm. long, commencing above gape 
and continued down sides of neck; head and neck brown, darker and 
slightly glossed on the crown and along the back of the neck, paler down 
the middle of fore neck, each feather being margined with pale brown 
and giving the whole a finely scaled appearance; upper back brownish 
black, each feather narrowly margined with rufescent and streaked with 
white on the lateral parts; rest of back, rump, lower part of fore neck, 
and under parts black with an oil-green gloss; wing-coverts, scapulars, 
and innermost secondaries black, each with a long, silvery white streak 
down the middle; scapulars much elongated and pointed, the longest 
measuring about 230 mm. ; innermost secondary transversely ribbed along 
the basal two-thirds of outer web; quills and tail black, the middle pair 
of tail-feathers strongly ribbed on outer web and outer pairs slightly 
rayed. Tail composed of twelve feathers. ‘Iris yellow; bill dusky on 
culmen, yellowish on sides and on lower mandible; legs black.’ (Godwin- 
Austen.) Length, about 890; culmen, from feathers on forehead, 89 to 
91; wing, 330 to 355; tail, 218 to 230; tarsus, 43 ; outer toe with claw, 81. 
