256 F. Stoliczka — Mammals and Birds inhabiting Kachh. [No. 3, 



971. Ftjltx* cbistata. Not common. 



975. Podiceps minor ? = Philippensis, Bonn. = minor,Y&v. (3., Gm. 

 Very common. 



Wing 4 to 4*25 ; tarsns 1*3 to P4, mid toe with claw 2, bill at front 

 07 to 0"8, from gape PI to P2 inch. 



980. LaETTS (CheOICOCEPHALTTS) BBTTNICEPHALTTS.f 



Not common, except along the coast and locally in the Bann. The 

 respective measurements of two specimens are : wing 12*3 and 13 '4, tail 

 4 - 4 and 4 - 8 ; tarsus 2 and 2'22 ; mid toe with claw l - 65 and 1*8 ; bill at 

 front 1*3 and 1*5 ; from gape 2 - 2 and 2 - 6 inch. The iris is chocolate brown, 

 bill yellowish, black towards tip ; feet yellowish brown. The quills are black; 

 except towards the base, and beginning with the fourth all have a small 

 white tip, gradually increasing in extent on the succeeding feathers. Both 

 specimens, although somewhat small in size, agree perfectly in coloration 

 which does not appear to differ from the winter plumage of this bird, as 

 usually recorded. 



983. G-ELICHELIDON NILOTICA, Hasselq., = anglica, Mont. 



Local, and not common, except on or along the Bann. Average measure- 

 ments of three birds, with the loreal region blackish, the occiput and top of 

 head ashy white, and the grey primaries externally tipped darker on iotJi webs : 

 wing ll - 2 to 1P8 ; tail 4*5 to 4'8 ; tarsus 13 to 135 ; mid toe with claw 

 1*15 ; bill at front P35 to 1*5 inch. Iris, feet and bill entirely black. 



984. Htdeochelidon indica. 



I saw a considerable number of these birds on the tanks in the Bann 

 islands, Pacham and Kharir, but scarcely any on the tanks in Kachh proper. 

 Iris and bill in fresh specimens blacky ; feet blackish brown. 



1005. GrEACTJLtrs caebo. Not uncommon on the larger lakes. 



1007. Geacultts (Miceocaebo) melanoghstathtts, Brandt. ■ 



G-. B. Gray (Handl., Ill, 129) gives javanicus of Horsfield as a syno- 

 nym of the above, but he allows niger, Yieillot, as a distinct species from 

 « S. Asia.' 



1008. Plottts melanogaster. 



I met with only solitary specimens of both tbis and the preceding 

 species. 



* Fulix, Sundev., 1835 = Fuligula, SepK, ex parte ; vide G. R. Gray, Handl., 

 Ill, 86. 



f Gould has besides this and riclibundus a new species, named Tibetanus. 

 % In dried specimens the hill has distinctly a reddish tinge. 



