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MESSRS ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



ANSERIFORMES. 



Ducks -vnu Geese. 



, I Wing over 7 inche: 

 I Win<' under 7 inch 



lies ; bill short nnd high 



2 j Wing under 9 inches 

 ( Wing over 10 inches 



„ f With a speculum on the wing 

 (With no speculum on the wing . . 



. (Head buff or whitish, speckled with black 

 (Head white, strongly speckled with black 



_ (Belly white 

 ( Belly brown or black 



Ncttoptis coromarulelianics. 



Qaerqucdula querqucclula. 

 . . Dendrociicna javanica. 



Casnrca casarca. 



Sarcidiornis )nelanonotus. 

 Asarcornis scutulata leucopt^ira. 



116. Sarcidiornis melanonotus (Penn.). 



Anser melanonotus, Pennant, Faunula Indica, 1769, p. 12, pi. x^ 



(Ceylon). 

 Sarcidiornis melanonotus, Williamson, Journ. Nat. Hist. See. Siam, 



iii, 1918, p. 42 (Klong Lxiang Peng, nr. Bangkok.). 



The only reference to the Comb Duck is that given above : 

 elsewhere the nearest localities are the Attaran river, N. Tenasserim, 

 and the vicinity of Chiengmai. 



117. Asarcornis scutulata leucoptera (Blyth). 



Sarcidiornis leucopterus, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xviii, 



1849, p. 820 (Burma). 

 Anas leucoptera, C. ii, p. 281 (Tavoy and Mergui). 

 Asarcornis scutidata, D., p. 80 (Patelung). 

 Asarcornis leucoptera, F., p. 19 (Trang) ; H., p. 89 (Bandon) ; I., 



p. 134 (Hat Sanuk and Hue Sai near Koh Lak). 

 Asarcornis scutulata leucoptera, L., p. 92 (Ghirbi). 



This heavy Wood-Duck is common in Peninsular Siam, where 



it feeds in the rice fields largely on species of snail (Anipidlaria), 



and lies up for the night in the adjacent jungle. Our men met with 



it on a small stream near Hat Sanuk, but did not secure specimens. 



118. Nettopus coromandelianus (Gm.). 



Anas coromandeliana, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i, 1788, p. 522 (Coroman- 

 del, India). 



Xettopus coromamlelianus, A., p. 486 (Tavoy) ; D., p. 81 (Pate- 

 lung) ; G., p. 153 (Ratburi and Petchaburi). 



Said to be common at the north end of the Tale Sap and in 



the Tale Noi in Patelung, but rare everywhere else in the Peninsula. 



A. Hume & Davison, Stray Feathers, vi, 1878. E- (>. Grant, Fasciculi Malayenses, iii (Birds), 1G05, 



B. MUller, Die Ornis <ler Insel Salan^a, 1882. F. Robinson and Kloss, Ibis. 1910-11. 



C. Urtle-i, Birds Brit. Burinah, Vols, i \- ii, 1883. C. (iairdner. .Journ. N. H. Soc. Kiam, i, 1915. 



D. Bonhotu, 1'. Z. S. 1001, Vol. i. H. Uobinson, Journ. F. M, S. Museums, v, 1015. 



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