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Longlegged Plover. 



Avocet (represented in America 

 by closely allied species). 



Coot. 

 fWater Hen. 



Spotted Crake. 



Black Stork. 



Stork. 



Heron. 



Purple Heron. 



Little Bittern. 



Bittern. 

 fNight Heron. 



Spoonbill (represented in Ame- 

 rica by totally distinct but 

 closely allied species). 

 fGlossy Ibis. 



Common Wild Goose (origin of 

 Domestic Geese). 



Pink-footed Goose. 

 fWhite-footed Goose, 



Ruddy Sheldrake. 



Sheldrake. 

 fShoveller. 

 fMallard. 

 tGadwell. 



f Pintail. 



fWigeon (? permanent variety in 



America, or distinct species). 



fTeal (? permanent variety in 



America, or distinct species). 



Garganey (represented in Ame- 

 rica by the Blue-winged Teal. 



Red-crested Pochard. 

 fPochard, 



White-eyed Pochard. 

 fScaup Duck. 



Tufted Duck (represented by a 

 nearly allied species, with 

 brown band round neck). 

 fGoosander. 

 fSmew. 

 fCrested Grebe. 



Little Grebe. 

 fGreat Black -backed Gull. 



Lesser Black-backed Gull. 



Black-headed Gull. 

 fGull-billed Tern. 

 fCommon Tern. 

 fLittle Tern 

 tCormorant. 



Many of our other species seem to be represented in India by 

 closely allied species, as the Cushat, Eock Dove, Stock Dove, 

 Golden Plover, Solitary Snipe, and others. I have sometimes 

 had opportunities of seeing skins of some of these species from 

 India. The wading birds have been generally in their mature 

 winter plumage, and from that changing and changed to sum- 

 mer no young birds in their first plumage being amongst them 

 that I remember. 



It seems difficult to account for the absence from India of 

 some of the eastern European species, which either do not, or 

 rarely appear westward. We might expect such species to be 

 more likely to occur there than some of those which do, and 

 which are equally common on the American continent, appearing 



