j 2 On the Indian Podicipedidcz.


skin of a Grebe labelled " Podicipes fluviatilis, Morocco," which

shows quite as much white on the secondaries as P. albipennis,

but has the black on chin and throat much more developed than

on any skin of Podicipes flicviatilis I have ever seen.



Note. — The works quoted in the Synonymy are : —


A Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency. By Lieut. H.


Edwin Barnes. Calcutta, 1885.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds. By A. O. Hume. 3 vols.


London, 1889-90.

The Journal of the Bombay Naticral History Society.

Fa?ma of British India. Edited by W. T. Blauford. Birds.


Vols, i.-iv.

Handbuch der Naturgeschichte alter Vogel Deutchlands. von C. L.


Brehm. Ilmenau, 1831.

Hnme Cat. A rough tenative list of the Birds of India. By A. O.


Hume. Stray Feathers, vol. viii. pp. 73-150. 1879.

The Zoologist.


The Birds of India. By T. C. Jerdon. 3 vols. Calcutta, 1862-64.

A History of the Birds of Ceylon. Capt. W. V. Legge. Loudon,


1878-80.

Stray Feathers : a Journal of Ornithology for India. Ed. by


A. O. Hume, n vols. Calcutta, 1873-88.

A Handbook to the Birds of British Bur?)ia. By E. W. Oats.


3 vols.

The Ibis.

Scientific results of the Seco?id Yarkand Mission, Aves. By R. B.


Sharpe. 1891.

A Manual of Pal&arctic Birds. By H. E. Dresser. 2 vols.

Catalog7ie of the Birds in the British Muse7im.



