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XVI. ANSERES. 



135. Spatula clypeata (Linn.). 



In a case of Ducks set up by Mr. Chevallier, and shot by 

 himself in the Lahej district^ this was the only species 

 I recognized. That several species of Duck are to be found 

 round Lahej at the time of inundation (November) is beyond 

 doubt. The only Duck, however, that I have met with per- 

 sonally is Querquedula crecca. 



136. Anas boscas, Linn.; Barnes, Ibis, 1893, p. 174. 



137. Querquedula crecca (Linn.) ; Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, 

 p. 22; Barnes, Ibis, 1893, p. 174. 



138. Querquedula circia (Liun.) ; Barnes, Ibis, 1893, 

 p. 174. 



XVII. STEGANOPODES. 



139. Phalacrocorax, sp. inc. ; Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, p. 24 ; 

 Barnes, Ibis, 1893, p. 179. 



The locality for the Brown Cormorant given by Barnes is 

 no longer available, as a wall has been built across the 

 opening between the Seerah Mole battery and the scarp of 

 Seerah Island, rendering approach to the sea-shore almost 

 impossible. After having paid two or three visits to this 

 locality, one to Marshag, and kept a general look-out for 

 Brown Cormorants without seeing one, I was nearly coming 

 to the conclusion that some mistake had been made, and 

 that all our supposed Brown Cormorants were Boobies. 

 However, on my last visit to Barnes's locality, a few days 

 before leaving, one of these birds came and settled in water 

 about 80 yards off and decided the question ; it might have 

 been shot, but could not have been retrieved. 



As we were returning from Has Fakoum Bay on the 6th 

 of April, a Black Cormorant was seen flying in shore along 

 the coast of Little Aden — so that two forms of Cormorants, 

 a black and a brown one, appear to exist at Aden. 



