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Subfamily MERGING. 
3 05- Mergtts merganser. 
Genus MERGUS. 
Mar (jug merganser, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 70 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 421 ; Prjev. in 
Rowley’s Orn. Misc. iii. p. 107 (1878). 
Fergus castor, Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 297 (1873) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 202 (1876) ; 
Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 101. 
H°- 721, $ ad. Tanksi, September 16, 1873. 
H°- 831, s juv. Upper Karakash, October 1873. 
H°- 1590, s ad. Lake Sirikul, May 1, 1874. — Length 25 inches, wing 11*8, tail 5'2, 
tarsus 2 ; expanse 38 ; bill from gape 2'8, from front 2 ; middle toe 2‘9, bind toe 
B'75. Iris dark brown ; bill black, red at upper sides and base ; feet coral-red. 
In bis ‘Diary ’ Dr. Stoliczka refers to the occurrence of the present species in the Pamir, 
V lero be saw a good number in Lake Sirikul. It is probably one of the species said to breed 
rou Rd the lake. 
^ A young, half-fledged Merganser was caught in the Indus near Leh, in July, by 
r ' Henderson on his up journey. 
Lionel Biddulph shot a female specimen at Cuchot on the Indus Diver in September 
^2, and states that he saw the bird at Taslikurghan inSarikol, where one of the feeders 
Ihe Yarkand Diver broadens out into a wide shallow. 
‘if ^ r ' ^eAhy writes : — “ A specimen of this Merganser was preserved at Kashghar on the 
°1 October, and it was tolerably common on the rivers near Kashghar during the 
° Q ths of November and December. The natives said that it fed entirely on fish and water- 
R’-ects, and that it migrated eastward to the lake region of Lob. 
<lz aur dak, > i. e. the Variegated Goose-Duck.” 
Its Turki name is ‘ Ala 
Genus MERGELLUS. 
^ MergelLTJS albellus. 
Fergus albellus, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 70 (1873 ) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 421 ; Blanf. East. Persia, 
h. p. 303 (1876); Prjev. in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. iii. p. 108 (1878); Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. /6; 
Scully, J. A. S. Beng. Ivi. p. 89 (1887). 
Mer gellus albellus, Scully, Str. E. iv. p. 202 (1876) ; Hume & Marsh. Game Birds of India, iii. p. 293, 
Pi 39 (1880) ; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 125 ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 92 (1889). 
Ho. 1177, 2 . Kashghar, December 24, 1873. 
“ Tl ^ ate< ^ Hr. Stoliczka’s diary to have been caught with a Hawk. Dr. Scully writes . 
a le Smew was occasionally seen near Yarkand in the winter, but only one specimen, 
f, e Biale, was obtained in February, near the Yarkand Diver, which was then completely 
roz en over.” 
