TADOENA. 699 



Occasionally large flocks of this bird were observed at various parts of the 

 Irawady above Mandalay, and on the sand banks in the Tapeng and on the old rice 

 flats behind the village. 



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Genus Anas, Linn. 

 228. Anas pcecilorhtncha, Eorster. 



Anas pcecilorhync/ia^'Povst. ylndische Zool.^ p. 23^ pi. xiii;, 1781; Eyton, Monogr. Anat., p. 138, 

 1838 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 304, 1849 ; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. iii, p. 799, 

 1863; Schl., Mus. P.-B. ^^^^em, p. 43, 1866; Holdsw., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1873, p. 479; 

 Hume, Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 261; Adam., i5. cit., p. 402; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. 

 B.,p. 643, 1873; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, ex. No., p. 165, 

 1875. 



Spotted-billed Duch, Lath., Gen. Syn., vol. iii, pt. 2, p. 487, 1785. 



Anas pceJcilorhyncha, Gm., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 535, 1788, e^?; Lath.; Gray, Handl. B., vol. iiij p. 

 82, 1871. 



Mareca pmcilorh^ncha, Steph. Gen. Zool., vol. xii, p. 134, 1824. 



a. S Bhamo, 20th February 1868. 



b. t Tamilone, Tapeng river, 4th February 1875. 



This duck does not appear to be uncommon in Upper Burma, but it is not so 

 numerous as in the North- West Provinces of India. 



Genus T ado en A, Leach. 

 229. Tadoena casaeca, Linn. 



Anas casarca, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. iii, App. p. 224, 1768. 



Anas mtila,V2^\., N. Comm. Petrop., t. xiv, p. 579, 1770; Temm. Man., t. iii, p. 832, 1822; 



Werner, Atlas, Palimpides, pi. xxx, 1827; Nordm., in Demid. Voy. Buss. Merid., p. 286, 1840 ; 



Naum., Vog. Deutschl., pi. 299, 1842; Yarr., Brit. B., vol. iii, p. 137, 1843; Kjoerb. Orn. 



Dar., pi. xlviii, 1854 ; Sund., Sv. Fogl., pi. Ixxxiii, fig. 1, 1856; Radde, Reis. Sibir., p. 361, 



1863; Severtzofe, Turkest. Jevotn., 1873, p. 70; Palmen, Journ. fur Ornith., 1876, p. 56. 

 Anas casarca, (jm..,'RQiBe.,i. ii, p. 182, 1774; Savign., Descr. de TEgypte, pi. x, fig. 2; Schl., 



Mus. P.-B. Anseres, p. 66, 1866. 

 Anser casarca, Vieill., N. Diet. d^Hist. Nat., xxiii, p. 341, 1818. 

 FodomaTutila,'Boie,lBiB, 1822, p. 563 ; Gould, B. Eur., v, pi. 358, 1837; Shelley, B. Egypt 



p. 282, 1872 ; Harting, Handb., Brit. B., p. 157, 1873 ; Gray, B. West Scotl., p. 361, 1873 ; 



Irby, Orn. Gibr., p. 197, 1875 : Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 419. 

 Casarka futila,'^on^^.,Com^.JAQi. B. Eur. & N. Am., p. 56, 1838; Eyton, Monogr. Anat., 



p. 106, 1838; Blyth, Cat. B., Mus. As. Soc, Bengal, p. 303, 1849; Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 



p. 362 ; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. iii, p. 791, 1864; Loehe, Expl. Sci. Alger., t. ii, p. 366, 1867 ; 



Layard, B. S. Afr., p. 350, 1867 ; Fritseh., Vog. Eur., pi. xlvii, fig. 9, 1878; Gray, Handl. 

 - B., vol. iii, p. 80, 1871 ; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 418 ; Salvad., Faun. Ital. Ucc., 



p. 256, 1872 ; Heugl., Orn. N. O. Afr., p. 1306, 1874; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 261 ; 



Adam., t. c, p. 401 ; Ball, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 437 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1875, 



p. 193 ; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, extra No., p. 165, 1875 ; Gates 



& Butler, Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 234 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 28; Scully, t. c, 



p. 198 ; Fairbank, t. c, p. 264. 

 Vulpanser nitila, Keys. & Bias., Wirb. Eur., p. 84, 1840. 



