312 PROCELLAEID^. 



" In full breeding plumage the sides and flanks are very strongly 

 streaked with orange red, and the parts indicated as speckled with 

 white are entirely black ; in the winter plumage the colours are duller ; 

 the front of the neck is an earthy brown; and the whole of those por- 

 tions, indicated as speckled with white, are pure white ; the orange 

 red tuft behind the eye is entirely wanting. — (Huvie. Sh: F. i. 267.) 



"In all the bills were black; the irides vermilion, and the legs 

 and feet greenish plumbeous interiorly, and blackish exteriorly. 



"Length. — 12 to 13 inches, expanse 22'5 to 24'5, wing 5'2 to 5"6, 

 tarsus 2'9 to 3'2, bill at gape 3'6 to 4." 



Hah. — Sind and the Mekran Coasts ; common about the mouths of 

 ■the Indus. Whether this species is distinct from auritus or not has to 

 be finally settled. In vol. i. 8tr. F. Mr. Hume gives some charac- 

 ters which distinguish auritus from this species, and thinks that " it 

 differs in certain details of colouration and in shape of bill sufficient 

 to justify separation." 



Podiceps minor, Lirm.; P. E. 905; Gould. B. Fur. pi. 392. 

 Podiceps phillipensis, Gm. ; Jerd. B. Lid. iii. p. 822 ; 8tr. F. i. 268 ; 

 iv. 203 ; Murray, Hdhk., Zool., S^c, Sind, p. 242. — The Little Geebe 

 or Dab-Chick. 



Crown of the head and nape dark blackish brown, or sepia brown 

 glossed with greenish ; sides of the face, neck on the sides and in 

 front, chestnut red; chin dull black; breast sepia brown, mixed with 

 white; flanks pale ferruginous ; rest of under parts silky white; under 

 wing-coverts buff; primaries pale brown, buffy white basally ; second- 

 aries white, margined with brown ; back, scapulars and tertials glossy 

 brownish black, with a greenish tinge ; bill blackish, paler at the base; 

 irides red brown; legs greenish black or dusky green. 



Length. — 8 to 9 inches, wing 4, bill at front 0-75, tarsus r25. 



Hab. — Throughout India, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, Eastern 

 Turkistan and Nepaul. 



Family, PROCELLARIDiE,— Peteels, &c. 



Bill long, straight, compressed, very deeply grooved, tip strong, 

 arched and hooked ; nostrils tubular, situated at the base of the biU, 

 and exposed. 



Sub-Family, PROCELLAHIN^,— Stoemy Peteels. 



Nostrils at base of keel, divided by a septum ; hind toe generally 

 present; bill slender, compressed ; tarsus moderate. 



Oceanites.— A'cj/s and Bias. 



Bill short and slender, curved at the tip ; tail forked ; wings long, 

 second quill longest ; tibia partially naked. 



