486 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



Graptocephalus ; 



With the following characters : — 



(i Head and neck bare, covered by a variously coloured skin. 

 Skull square-shaped on top ; occipital region high and wide, 

 sloping to the forehead, which is prominent and descends rapidly 

 to the maxilla. Secondaries are equal in length to the primaries, 

 and both reach nearly to the tips of the rectrices. Second and 

 third primaries equal and longest. Tarsus half an inch longer 

 than the middle toe ; outer toe slightly longer than inner. 

 Tarsi covered with small hexagonal scales. Under tail-coverts 

 extending over two -thirds the length of the tail." 



Mr. Elliot tells us that specimens are in the museum of Paris 

 brought at different times by MM. Bocourt and Harmond from 

 Siam and Cambqjia. 



Mr. Elliot was led to believe, from an examination of the 

 skins, that the band at the back of the head was rose colored, 

 but Davison has carefully recorded the colour in the case of 

 five adults, and in all these the band was, as described originally 

 by me, white, tinged with blue. 



950. — Sarkidiornis melanonotus, Penn. 



Blyth gives this as common throughout Burma, and Ward- 

 law Ramsay got it at Tonghoo where it breeds, but we have not 

 met with it anywhere yet in Tennasserim proper. 



951.-— Nettapus coromandelianus, Gm. (28). 



{Tonghoo, Earns.) Thatone ; Kaukaryit, Houngthraw R.; Amherst; Yea; 

 Tavoy. 



Confined in Tenasserim proper to the central portions of the 

 province, but observed in the north in the tracts west of the 

 Sittang. 



952.— Dendrocygna j avanica, Sorsf. ( 1 1 ) . 



(Tonghoo, Rams.) Thatone; Amherst; Yea; Tavoy. 



Common throughout the province. 



[I observed this at Pahpoon and many other places where I 

 did not shoot at, and it was common in the Pakchan. — W. D.] 



I retain our Indian lesser whistling Teal under Horsfield's 

 own name. The name applied to it by Mr. Blyth, in his Com- 

 mentary on Jerdon's Birds of India (Ibis, 1867, 175), namely, 

 arcuata, of Cuv. apud Horsf., cannot possibly stand for our 

 Indian bird. It was not published until after Horsfield had 

 published his own name javanica, which apparently applies 

 fairly well to our Indian birds, and when it was published it was 



