TADOENA. 699 



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

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

 flats behind the village. 



Genus Anas, Linn. 

 228. Anas pcecilohhtncha, Porster. 



Anas pmilorhjnclia, Forst., Indische 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. ^wew, p. 43, 1866; Holdsw., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1872, p. 479; 

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

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

 1875. 



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



Anas pmkllorhijnclia, Gm., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 535, 1788, e« Lath.; Gray, Handl. B., vol. iii, p. 

 82, 1871. 



Mareca pmcilorhyncla, Steph. Gen. Zool., vol. xii, p. 134, 1824. 



ft. S Bhamo, 20tli February 1868. 



h. 5 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 casarca, Linn. 



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



Anasrutila,"^:iSS.., N. Comm. Petrop., t. xiv, p. 579, 1770; Temm. Man., t. iii, p. 832, 1822; 



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



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



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



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

 Anas casarca, (jm.,'K.t\se.,t. 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., xxili, p. 341, 1818. 

 PodornarutUa,'&o{e,l5{s, 1832, 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. 

 CaMri-a ra<«7«, Bonap., Comp. List. 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; Loche, Expl. Sci. Alger., t. ii, p. 366, 1867 ; 



Layard, B. S. Afr., p. 350, 1867 ; Fritsch., V6g. Eur., pi. xlvii, fig. 9, 1878; Gray, Handl. 



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



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. xHv, extra No., p. 165, 1875 ; Oates 



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



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

 Vuljoanser ndila, Keys. & Bias., Wirb. Eur., p. 84, 1840. 



