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191. S. JAVANICA. 
Very common. 
192. S. minuta. (Lesser Tern.) 
Seen once or twice on the Gogra; always (like all the Terns) 
in the cold season. 
193. Pelecanus javanicus. 
Very common on large jheels and on rivers in the rainy 
seasons, and settles on trees. Most of those which I saw were 
in the immature plumage. 
194. GrACULUS PYGMiEUS. C-fv MrU / (p <>j 
Extremely numerous on rivers, particularly during the cold 
season. 
195. Plotus melanogaster. (“ Snake Bird ” of Europeans.) 
So called from its appearance when swimming, the whole of 
the body being submerged, and only the snake-like head and 
neck being seen. This Darter is exceedingly common in some 
localities during the cold season, preferring rivers and deep 
jheels. In the Terai I have seen as many as twenty sitting on 
a dead tree, which was quite white from their dung. 
196. Anser cinereus. (Grey-lag Goose.) 
Arrives in November, and departs about the end of February; 
is during that time very common, frequenting large jheels more 
than rivers, whereas the Barred Goose (Bernicla indica) resorts 
more to rivers, and is not nearly so good a bird for the table as 
the Grey-lag. 
A single specimen of some species of Goose, which, from the 
description given me, I imagine to have been a Grey-lag, was 
seen on Nynee Tal in Kumaon, about the beginning of May 
1859, probably en route from the plains to the cooler regions of 
the Thibetan lakes. 
197. Anser brachyrhynchus. (Pink-footed Goose.) 
I saw a specimen of this Goose, killed at Alumbagh in 
January 1858. According to Mr. Blyth, it has also occurred in 
the Punjab. 
198. Anser minutus, Naum. (Little White-fronted Goose.) 
On the 24th of October, 1859, near Seetapore, in Oudh, I 
