THAYER AND BANGS: AVES. 153 



These skins are certainly referable to this subspecies; both are small and 

 show all the characters of the Himalayan goosander. 

 They afford the following measurements: 



No. 52943, adult <?, wing, 269; culmen, 54; tarsus, 45. 



No. 52944, adult 9, wing, 253; culmen, 46; tarsus, 41. 



MERGUS SQUAMATUS Gould. 



Six specimens, two adult males, three adult females and one young male. 

 Ichang, Hupeh, and Yachow, Kiating, and Kungyahsien, Szechwan, November 

 and December. The young male has the sides, lower back, and rump as in the 

 adult, except that the squamatulations are not so black or so pronounced; the 

 upper back is gray and the head is rusty, like that of the female, but paler and 

 with no white on the throat; the crest, however, is nearly as long as in the 

 adult. 



This Merganser has been a very rare bird in collections; and for a long time 

 was known only from the type, an immature male. Ogilvie-Grant, recently 

 described, and figured for the first time, the adult male and female (Ibis, 1900, 

 ser. 7, 6, p. 602, pi. 12). 



PHALACROCORACIDAE. 



PHALACROCORAX CARBO (Linne). 



Five specimens, adults in non-breeding plumage and one young female, 

 Kiating, and Yachow, western Szechwan, December. 



These skins belong to the smaller, small-billed oriental race, which if recog- 

 nized would probably bear the name, Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis Shaw and 

 Nodd; the series of skins we have examined is not sufficient in numbers or in 

 the range of the species to enable us to decide; Indian and Chinese birds are how- 

 ever noticeably small. 



FALCONIDAE. 



CIRCUS CYANEUS (Linne"). 



Four specimens, two adult males, one female and one young male, Ichang, 

 Ichanghsien, Changkowhsien, and Ituhsien, Hupeh, winter (November 20 to 

 February 18). 



CIRCUS SPILONOTUS Kaup. 



One male, not fully adult, Shihtowya, Hupeh, April 18, 1907. 



