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Order STEGANOPODES. 
Family PHALACROCOBACITLE. 
Genus PHALACROCORAX. 
Phalacrocorax cabbo. 
Garbo phalacrocorax, yar. continent alls, Sevcrtz. Turkest. Jcvotn. p. Ill (1873). 
Gracuhis carlo, L.; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 204 (1876) j 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 ; Sevcrtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 77 ; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 72 (188o) ; Scully, 
J. A. S. Beng. lvi. p. 88 (1887). 
Hr. Scully writes as follows : — “ This Cormorant is, 1 believe, a permanent resident in 
^fshgharia — in the plains. The first specimen was obtained on the banks of the Yarkand 
^ ive L near Tarim Langar. In the beginning of August I found these birds quite common at 
ungtash, near Kargbalik. They were then nearly always seen in parties of five, sitting on 
top of a mud cliff— often thirty feet high— immediately overlooking the water below, one 
0f party acting as sentinel. The favourite posts of the Cormorants could be easily recog- 
^ 1Ze d about the place — spots worn into a sort of dome shape by their tails, and always near 
e edge of the cliff. In sitting these birds rest on their feet and the stiff feathers of their 
. ai K the tail being spead out to form a sort of hollow half-cone. When they fly the neck 
ls stretched forward like a goose. On one occasion I saw a Cormorant sitting near the 
liter’s edge, apparently watching intently for a fish ; I shot the bird just as it rose, and it 
^biediately dived into tbe water, reappearing again, however in a few seconds as it was 
0l 'tally wounded. The Turki name for this Cormorant is ‘ Kara Ghaz,’ ‘the Black Goose.’ 
Order ANSERES. 
Eamily AY AT I DAI. 
Subfamily ANSE RINAS. 
Geuus CYGNUS. 
^Arntjs olob. 
Gyjnus olor , Gm.j Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 70 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 416; Scully, Str. P. 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 
s . to ^ards Aksu; captive individuals of this species were seen at Kashghar in November, 
in a pond at the Shrine of Hazrat Apak. The Turki name for the species is 
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