AND IN PARTS OF WYNAAD AND SOUTHERN MYSORE. 419 
[987.—Sterna melanogastra, Zem. The Black- 
bellied Tern. 
&.-W. Mysore, certainly. The Wynaad I think.—A. O. H.] 
1007.—Phalacrocorax pygmeus, Pall. The Little 
Cormorant. 
I have seen this species on the lake at Gundalupet in Mysore, 
and I think, late one evening near Manantoddy, I saw a party 
of this same species flying high overhead. 
1008.—Plotus melanogaster, Penn. The Indian 
Snake Bird. 
I have obtained this species on the Pykarra river about nine 
miles from Qotacamund. I have also noticed it in Wynaad 
and on the lake at Gundalupet in Mysore. 
Notes, 
Mr. W. N. Cutt has sent me another specimen of Eris- 
matura leucocephala, TAR WuITE-FACED StirF-TaiL Duck, pro- 
eured by him in the Gurgaon district on the 28th October 
1882. 
It will be remembered that the first time this species was 
obtained eastwards of Palestine and Asia Minor, in our lati- 
tudes (further north it was known to occur on the Caspian 
and in Western Turkestan) was when a pair of immature birds 
were shot near Khelat-i-Ghilzai, by Colonel Sir Oliver St. John 
on the 20th October 1879. 
I then predicted that the species would turn up in the 
Punjab and Sindh. 
Within a few months of this prediction Mr. F. Field shot 
an immature bird of this species close to the civil station of 
Loodhiana. This was on the 28th of October 1880. On the 
21st of January 1882 Mr. Chill obtained an immature male 
of this species near the Najafgarh jheel, (say approximate- 
ly Lat. 29° N., Lone. 77° H.), and now again another near 
the same locality on the 28th October of the same year. 
The bird cannot, therefore, be very rare, as five specimens 
have reached me in three years. It is, therefore, extremely 
strange that it should have remained unnoticed up to 1879. 
Many sportsmen well up in water birds, myself amongst the 
number, have during the last 20 years shot ducks all over the 
