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has not described it and, from the above notice, it presumably being undescribed, 
I do so now. 
Description . — Above and below warm rufous buff. Crown rufous mixed with 
rufescent brown and bordered by a stripe of the same colour from each side, 
meeting beliind at the nape and continuing partly down the back of the neck ; 
oar-covets bordered wth rufescent brown ; back and wings mixed rufous buff and 
rufescent brown ; a patch of rufous bordered by rufescent brown from lower neck 
to breast and a patch of rufescent brown on each side of the breast ; thighs with 
three broad rufescent brown bands on outer sides. 
“ Irides hazel brown ” (A. M. Primrose). This was collected by Mr. A. M. Prim 
rose in Goalpara on the 12th June 1916. 
Baghownie Laheria Sarai, CHAS. M. INGLIS, m.b.o.u., e.z.s., f.e.s. 
Bihar, 
^th June 1922. 
No. XVIII.— OCCURRENCE OF THE BLACK THROATED DIVER 
{COLYMBUS ARC TIC US) IN INDIA. 
It is worth recording the fact that on February 19th, 1922, I shot a specimen 
of the above species on the Western Jumna Canal at Jagadhri, Ambala 
District, Punjab. 
Soon after daybreak on this date I had gone up the left bank of the canal after 
some Pintail duck which I had seen alighting in the shallows some half mile above 
the railway bridge. I may mention that the canal here partakes more the char- 
acter of a river inasmuch as the banks on either side are very irregular and on 
this particular day the water was very high, having in places inundated some 
extent of the adjacent low ground which usually is simply rush-covered mud, the 
haunts of Prinia flaviventris, Cyanecula suecica and Centropus sinerisis. I 
mention these details because the Pintail usually do not settle on the canal 
proper, but finding this inundated patch suitable as a resting or feeding place they 
had congregated there in some numbers, and had it not been for this fact I 
should have gone in the opposite direction. 
Ha\dng dealt with the duck, I was returning to the bridge when I saw this 
bird fishing near the bank. Waiting for it to dive I ran up and just before it 
reached the surface I could see the small frj>- leaping clear of the water before 
it’s approach. As soon as it appeared clear on the surface I shot it. 
Mr. Hugh Whistler, who kindly examined the specimen for me, in confirming my 
identification, tells me this is the first occurrence in India, adding that it is also 
the most southerly record, at the same time he adds in epist : — It apparently 
belongs to the race Colymbus arcticus suschkini (Sarudny), which according to 
Sarudny is found in Mongoha (Kobdo), Tomsk, the provinces of Ufa and Oren- 
burg, the Kirshis Steppes and Western Siberia to the Yenissai. 
Dissection proved it to be a female and Mr. Whistler is of opinion that it is a 
first winter bird. 
There was very little fat on the specimen. 
Colours of soft parts : — Irides red brown ; bill livid grey, culmen dark brown ; 
tarsi and feet dark leaden on upper surface, remainder livid grey. 
Measurements 
— Wing . . 
. . 290 mm. 
Tarsus . . 
. . 73 „ 
Bill from gape 
.. 83 „ 
Do. from skull 
- . 79 „ 
Do. from posterior margin of nostril 
-.51 „ 
Do. depth at commencement of feathering 
.. 17 „ 
Simla, 
A. E. 
JONES. 
20lA April 1922. 
