BLACK-BACKED PLECTROPTERUS. 



(Plectropterus melanotos.) 



PJL. corpore albo, capite collogue nigro maculatis, dorso alls cau- 



daque nigris. 

 Plectropterus with the body white, the head and neck spotted 



with black, the back and wings black. 

 Anser melanotos. Zool. Ind. 2 1 . pL 1 1 . 

 Anas melanotos. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 503. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2' 



839. 

 L'Oie bronzee de Coromandel. Biiff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 77. 



Buff. PL Enl. 937. 

 Black-backed Goose. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 449. Lath, Syn. Sup. 



272. 



SIZE of the last : length two feet nine inches : 

 beak pale : the head and half the neck white, spotted 

 and slightly streaked with black : the rest of the neck 

 and the under parts of the plumage are white, with the 

 sides tinged with grey : the back, wings, and tail are 

 black, glossed with green and purplish reflections, par- 

 ticularly in the male : the legs are dusky. Common 

 iii the island of Ceylon, and the coast of Coromandel, 

 and also in the vicinity of the Ganges. 



