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Birds of Celebes; Anatidae. 
lowed for the reception of the eggs: the nest in this instance was destitute of any 
kind of lining; hut one afterwards brought him by the natives was interiorly con- 
structed with feathers and contained six eggs, which are white, one inch and seven- 
eighths long by one inch and three-eighths broad” (Gould a 4, a 7). 
Distribution. Northern Australia (Gould etc. all, a 4, a 6, 5); New Guinea — Southern 
(D ’Albertis 4, Finsch 5, Goldie 5), North-western (Dresden Mus.); Tenimber 
Islands (H. O. Forbes 4, 5); Moluccas — Amboina (Hoedt 2, Riedel in Dresden 
Mus.); Celebes — Gorontalo Distr. (Riedel a 5). 
Only a single specimen of the Australian Pygmy Goose has been recorded 
from Celebes. It is in the St. Petersburg Museum, where it was found by Prof. 
W. Blasius, who determined it as a female. But we doubt if any really valid 
mark of distinction has yet been pointed out between the female and the male 
when the latter is in winter or immature dress. 
This species has its nearest affinities with Nettapus corornandelianus (Gm.) 
which also occurs in Celebes. The male of the latter is easily distinguishable 
by its having a broad white patch across the primaries, but the secondaries only 
tipped with white (none of them entirely white as in N. ptdchellus)\ it wants the 
crescentic bars on the sides of the neck and body, and in breeding plumage has 
the collar placed much lower — viz. across the upper breast like a necklace. 
The two females may be known by N. cowmandelianus having the secondaries only 
tipi^ed with white, the under tail-coverts dull white like the under surface, and 
by its wanting the dark well-defined crescentic bands on the sides. 
368. NETTOPUS COROMANDELIANUS (Gm.). 
Indian Pygmy Goose. 
a. Anas coromandeliana (1) Gm., S. N. 1766, I, 522 (ex Latham). 
b. Anas girra (I) J. E. Gray in Hardw., HI. Ind. Zool. pi. 68 (1832). 
c. Nettapus coromandelianus (1) Gray, List B. Br. Mus. 1844 pt. HI, 129; (II) Rchb., S. 
A. Nat., 1845, t. LY (96), figs. 933—35; (3) Licht., Nomencl. Av. 1854, 10; (4) Schl., 
Mus. P.-B., Anseres, 1866, 76; (5) Rchw., J. f. O. 1877, 218; (6) David & Oust., 
Ois. Chine 1877, 501; (7) Hume & Davis., Str. F. 1878, VI, 486; (8) Legge, B. 
Ceylon 1880, 1066; (9) Tweedd., Om. Works 1881, 269, 404, 413; (10) Kelham, 
Ibis 1882, 198; (11) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 121, 122; Rchw., 1. c. note; (12) 
Yorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1883, XLH, 121; (13) Oates, B. Br. Burmah 1883, H, 
272; (14) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1884, 216, 220; (15) id., Z. ges. Orn. 1886, 203; (16) 
Hartert, J. f. 0. 1889, 436; (17) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 192; (18) 
Oates ed. Hume’s Nests and Eggs Ind. B. 1890, HI, 280; (19) Styan, Ibis 1891, 
317, 328, 495; (20) De la Touche, Ibis 1892, 491; (21) Styan, Ibis 1893, 435. 
d. Nettapus coromandelicus (1) Hume, Str. F. 1874, H, 315. 
e. Nettapus kopschii (1) Swinh., Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1873, (4) XI, 16. 
Nettopns coromandelianus (1) Blyth, B. Burmah 1875, 165; (2) Salvad., Oat. B. 1895, 
XXYH, 68. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Salvador! 2. 
Figures and descriptions. J. E. Gray 6 1; Reichenbach c 17; Schlegel c 4; Legge c S; 
Yorderman c 72; Salvador! 2; etc. 
