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Order STEGANOPODES. 



Pamily PHALACEOCOEACID^. 



Genus PH ALAC RO COR AX. 



289. Phalacrocoeax carbo. 



Carbo pMlacrocorax, var. continent alls, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 114 (1873). 



Graculus carho, L.; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 204 (1876) ; Prjev. in Rowley^s Orn. Misc. iii. p. 146 (1878). 



Phalacrocorax carlo (L.) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 298 (1876) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 415 ; Scully, 



Ibis, 1881, p. 594; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 77; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 72 (1885); Scully, 



J. A. S. Beng. Ivi. p. 88 (1887). 



Dr. Scully writes as follows :— " This Cormorant is, I believe, a permanent resident in 

 Kashgharia— in the plains. The first specimen was obtained on the banks of the Yarkand 

 River, near Tarim Langar. In the beginning of August I found these birds quite common at 

 Tungtash, near Karghalik. They were then nearly always seen in parties of five, sitting on 

 the top of a mud cliff— often thirty feet high— immediately overlooking the water below, one 

 of the party acting as sentinel. The favourite posts of the Cormorants could be easily recog- 

 nized about the place— spots worn into a sort of dome shape by their tails, and always near 

 the edge of the cliff. In sitting these birds rest on their feet and the stiff feathers of their 

 tails, the tail being spead out to form a sort of hollow half -cone. When they fly the neck 

 is stretched forward like a goose. On one occasion I saw a Cormorant sitting near the 

 water's edge, apparently watching intently for a fish ; I shot the bird just as it rose, and it 

 immediately dived into the water, reappearing again, however in a few seconds as it was 

 mortally wounded. The Turki name for this Cormorant is ' Kara GJiaz: ^the Black Goose.' " 



Order ANSERES. 



Pamily ANATID^. 



Subfamily ANSERINE. 



Genus CYGNUS. 



290. Cygnus olor. 



Cygnus olor, Gm.; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 70 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 416; Scully, Str. F. iv. 

 p. 197 (1876) ; Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. iii. p. 99 (1878). 



" The Swan," writes Dr. Scully, " was often mentioned to me as being plentiful in Lob 

 and towards Aksu ; captive individuals of this species were seen at Kashghar in November, 

 swimming in a pond at the Shrine of Hazrat Apak. The Turki name for the species is 

 ^Kodayy 



