86() Birds of Celebes: Anatidae. 



lowed for the reception of the eggs: the nest in this instance was destitute of any 

 kind of hning; but one afterwards brought him by the natives was interiorly con- 

 structed with feathers and contained six eggs, which are white, one inch and seven- 

 eighths long by one inch and three-eighths broad" (Gould a 4, a 7). 

 Distribution. Northern Australia (Gould etc. a II, a 4, a 6, 5); New Guinea — Southern 

 (D'Albertis 4, Finsch 3, Goldie 5), North-western (Dresden Mus.); Tenimber 

 Islands (H.O.Forbes 4, 5); Moluccas — Amboina (Hoedt 2, Riedel in Dresden 

 Mus.); Celebes — Gorontalo Distr. (Riedel ci 5). 



Only a single specimen of the Australian Pygmy Goose has been recorded 

 from Celebes. It is in the St. Petersburg Museum, where it was found by Prof. 

 W. Blasius, who determined it as a female. But we doubt if any really valid 

 mark of distinction has yet been pointed out between the female and the male 

 when the latter is in winter or immature dress. 



This species has its nearest affinities with Nettapus coromandelianus (Gm.) 

 which also occurs in Celebes. The male of the latter is easily distinguishable 

 by its having a broad white patch across the primaries, but the secondaries only 

 tipped with white (none of them entirely white as in N. pnlchellus) ; it wants the 

 crescentic bars on the sides of the neck and body, and in breeding plumage has 

 the collar placed much lower — viz. across the upper breast like a necklace. 

 The two females may be known by N. coromandelianus having the secondaries only , 

 tipped with white, the under tail-coverts dull white like the under surface, and 

 by its wanting the dark well-defined crescentic bands on the sides. 



^ 368. NETTOPUS COROMANDELIANUS (Gm.). 



Indian Pygmy Goose. 



a. Anas coromandeliana (1) Gm., S. N. 1766, I, 522 (ex Latham). 



b. Anas girra (I) J. E. Gray in Hardw., El. Ind. Zool. pi. 68 (1832). 



c. Nettapus coromandelianus (1) Gray, List B.Br. Mus. 1844 pt. rH, 129; (II) Rchb., S. 



A. Nat., 1845, t. LV (96), figs. 933—35; (3) Licht., Nomencl. Av. 1854, 10; (4) Schl., 

 Mus. P.-B., Anseres, 1866, 76; (5) Rchw., J. f. 0. 1877, 218; (6) David & Oust., 

 Ois. Chine 1877, 501; (7) Hume & Davis., Str. F. 1878, TL, 486; (8) Legge, B. 

 Ceylon 1880, 1066; (9) Tweedd., Om. Works 1881, 269, 404, 413; (10) Kelham, 

 Ibis 1882, 198; (11) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 121, 122; Rchw., 1. c. note; (12) 

 Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1883, XLH, 121; (13) Gates, B. Br. Bunnah 1883, H, 

 272; (14) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1884, 216, 220; (15) id., Z. ges. Om. 1886, 203; (16) 

 Hartert, J. f. O. 1889, 436; (17) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 192; (18) 

 Gates ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs Ind. B. 1890, HI, 280; (19) Styan, Ibis 1891, 

 317, 328, 495; (20) De la Touche, Ibis 1892, 491; (21) Styan, Ibis 1893, 435. 



d. Nettapus coromandelicus (1) Hume, Str. F. 1874, 11, 315. 



e. Nettapus kopschii (1) Swinh., Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1873, (4) XI, 16. 



Nettopus coromandelianus (1) Blyth, B. Burmah 1875, 165; (2) Salvad., Cat. B. 1895, 



XXVII, 68. 

 For further synonymy and references cf. Salvadori 2. 

 Figures and descriptions. J. E. Gray hi; Reichenbach c 11; Schlegel c 4; Legge c 8\ 



Vorderman c 12\ Salvadori 2; etc. 



