L Oie bronzee @ Coromandel... Buff. Hist. Nat. des is. 
. pl. 937. 
Black-backed Goose siccsseseere Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 449. 
Le cravant royal cscise seosseee Vieill. Hin. Method. Orn. 
vol. 1. 126. 
Te O86 OF ONZE! eink s SiS ke BG ME AAG 
Found in Cayenne and most parts of India; is also included in | 
the list of birds of the Deccan, by Colonel Sykes, who also says that 
seeds of water grasses, and the remarkable quardrangular hard seeds - 
met with in the stomach of Péerocles exustus, were also found in the 
stomach of this bird. Colonel Sykes found the digastric muscle of 
_ the remarkable thickness of 1 1-5th inch. 
SARKIDIORNIS AFRICANUS. 
 Sar.—Minusquam precedenti, sed in colore similis. 
AFRICAN BLACEK-BACKED GOOSE. 
Less than the preceding, but in colour similar. 
IN. IN. 
RNG PCR U TN sii oan sanne sean 23 LOPE one awe ccerdgancate 2 
MSIE osschaWaashiccanster 2 Miudidle G06 © xc.siaceawss 23 
Bem. 2: Length. 9. ...cestdeeces 21 POPS Naa) cus cbeaienae eee 
BBWS nerd Sed atoneove 13 Middle 206 x sews peo - Of 
Both sexes resemble perfectly in colouring the preceding species, — 
except in admeasurement, in which they differ considerably. We 
have never seen a specimen with the caruncle, our specimen having 
evidently had it cut off, probably from the difficulty of preserving it. 
; Sarkidiornis Africanus nobis. ~—-2t fan 2 
The four specimens in our collection were received from the 
Gamba river. Specimens have also been brought home by Dr. Smith 
from Southern Africa, who has published a figure of this species. 
CHENALOPEX AMGYPTIACA. 
Chen.—Dorso castaneo; subtus leviter flavo-ferrugineo, - Sparsus 
lineatusque brunneo. 
