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obtained what I presume is the young- of this species ; but it is 

 strange that I never observed one of these young birds during 

 my numerous hunts after the adult birds last year. 



Description of young birds. — Head, neck, and breast, pale 

 duslcy-asby, darker on the throat and upper part of the neck, 

 and on the breast in some specimens there is a brownish tinge, 

 and all the shafts of the breast feathers are dark -brown. Abdo- 

 men and lower tail coverts, white. Primaries, black. Wing coverts, 

 from a light to a dark-brown, with all the feathers darkly shafted ; 

 back brown, with pale edges to the feathers. The under coverts 

 of the wing and wing lining, very delicate rose color, and on each 

 of the covert feathers there is a narrow black line running along 

 the quill about an inch and a half from the tip. 



Bill, deep leaden -ashy, with a tinge of deep red about the 

 middle and on the sides. Membrane round the eye, deep leaden ; 

 legs, leaden-ashy. 



T i., T. ;. i w rt>„ ™„ Mid-toe anK3 Bill, from gape. Tail, from 

 Length. Extent. Wmg. Tarsus. ^^^^^ straight vent. 



Male ... 29-2 49-9 12-2 6 5 2-8 3-4 3-8 



Female... 26-5 51-5 12^8 6-4 2 7 33 4-0 



Nearly all the young I obtained were shot in December 1872, 

 but my attention was first drawn to the young birds by a speci- 

 men shown to me by one of my officers, Mr. Braybrooke, who 

 shot it about the close of the rains. The last flock of this species 

 observed this year was on the 2nd Maroh. I sent a man after 

 them, but he could not get near them. There were no young 

 birds in the flock. 



In the adult birds the irides were crimson on a whitish 

 ground. 



949.— Anser indicus, Gmel. 



This goose is only occasionally met with in very small flocks. 

 I have succeeded in obtaining two specimens only. 



Bill, legs, and feet, pale-yellow; the bill has a purplish tinge 

 about the gonys and nostrils, and the nail is of a deep slaty-blue 

 color; irides, dark-brown. 



Female, wing, 16-7; tail, 5*5; length, 27*1; expanse, 54*1; 

 bill, from gape, 1"85. 



950.— Sarkidiornis melanonotus, Fenn. 



I have only seen one bird of this species at Sambhur, and 

 that was during the rains of 1871. Last year, however, a fine 

 male was shot for me in September. 



954. — Casarca rutila, Fall. 



The brahminy duck is very rare about Sambhur. I have never 

 seen it, but on the Koochamun jheel I once saw three birds. 



