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This bird, which is included in Col. Sykes’s catalogue of birds, 
found in the Deccan, contained in the ‘‘ Proceedings of the Zoological — 
Society,” is said by that gentleman to be ‘“‘monogamous: vegetable 
matter and gravel were found in the stomach. These birds, when 
wounded, dive, and on returning to the surface show only the bill 
above water, keeping the body below at pleasure.” It is called the 
~ “ Cotton Teal” by the Europeans of the Deccan, from the dnanlity 
of white in the plumage. 
NETTAPUS PULCHELLUS. 
Net.—Coromandeliano similis sed collaris atro absit. 
Net. similar to Coromandelianus, but without the black collar. 
IN. IN. 
Pe ilecwaes ences sacgmi > LO MM CLOtAYSR Satins taucec ener e 
PRES cioaks Sandel atnesonye 1 Middle t0é. siccscicssve AR 
Black, and a band round the upper part of the neck cinereous; 
below white; flanks and upper part of the neck, with each feather 
marked with a somewhat ¥: shaped bar; legs slaty ; bill black. 
Nettapus Pulchellus. ase cater: Gould. Birds of Aust. 
Inhabits Western Australia. 
ANSER INDICUS. 
Ans.—Cinereous ; capite albo; fascia lunata occipitali brunnea. 
BAR-HEADED GOOSE. 
-Cinereous goose; with the head white; a lunate fascia on the 
occiput brown. 
IN. IN. 
TAGE iin vist tha sc ciste) St WaT Stt cs Bier wees, cnarate de. 
Pe Bs ee awl ie sons bu kee MGMMLE COE. cu iiss voices sents Oe 
Light grey goose, with the head and neck white; a brown lunule 
on the occiput, and an irregular fascia a little below it, from which 
extends down the back of the neck a broad streak, both of the same 
