222 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol, XI11. 
“The egos are from six or seven, to nine, ten or eleven in number, 
of a rich reddish-yellow, or brownish fawn-colour. As soon as the 
females begin to sit, the males quit them for the season. ‘The species 
appears to be late in its nidification, scarcely beginning to build before 
the end of May, or the early part of June. The bird sits very close, 
and will almost allow herself to be trodden on before she will leave the 
nest.” 
With this summary of Morris’ most writers agree, but the eges are 
said to vary from five to fifteen in number, and many authors remark 
on the fact that the nest of this Merganser is, comparatively perhaps, 
unusually well put together and compact, All note the curious way 
the down is felted in with the rest of the materials into the body 
of the nest as well as being used as a copious lining. 
It should be noted that, in Holstein, Boje found it breeding in old 
crows’ nests. 
The eges in my own collection vary in length between 2°39" and 
2°65" and in breadth only between 1:7” and 1°76". 
They are very similar to the eggs of the Goosander, but are, on the 
whole, rather broader ovals, all are somewhat darker in colour and two 
have a well-defined greenish tint. One clutch was taken on the 29th 
April, 1899, another on the 10th June, 1880, and the third on the 
2nd July, 1898. 
ERRATA. 
1. Mr. W.T. Blanford has shewn that Cygnus bewick: (Bewick’s 
Swan) must be expunged from our list, and that C. musicus (The 
Whooper) must be included. This correction may be taken as absolutely 
final, and is based on Mr, Blanford’s personal examination of the skull 
and foot of Hoedgson’s bird in the British Museum. (Bom. N. His. 
Jour., XI, No. 2, p. 306). 
In the Asan of the 27th February, 1900, there is a notice of a 
young male and female Cygnus olor being shot, many others seen, and 
a third shot by a native shikari near Dera Ismail Khan. 
2. The Flamingo does breed in India. I most unfortunately over- 
looked the Miscellaneous Note in Vol, VIII of this Journal, p. 553. 
Mr. C. D. Lester draws attention to this in Vol. XI, p. 321. 
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