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Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on Birds 
108. Phalacrocorax carbo. 
Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn .); David & Onstal. Ois. Chine, 
p. 532 (1877); Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 340, fig. 1 
(1898). 
a. ad. Yuan-chu, Wu-ho River, West Hunan, 
22 December, 1898. 
Iris blue. Total length 32 inches. 
109. Merganser squamatus. (Plate XII.) 
Merganser squamatus Gould ; David & Oustal. Ois. Chine, 
p. 511 (1877); Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 478 
(1895). 
a, b. $ $ ad. Chien-yang, Yuan River, South-west 
Hunan, 9 December, 1898. 
Iris dark brown. 
This species was hitherto known only from an immature 
male described by Gould in 1864. Capt. Wingate having 
now procured an adult male and female of this splendid 
Merganser, I take the opportunity of giving the following 
description :— 
Adult male. Resembles M. castor in having the head and 
neck black glossed with dark green; the chest and rest of 
the underparts white, washed with pale salmon-buff. It 
differs from M. castor and from all other species of the genus 
in having the black of the head continued down the middle 
of the back of the neck to the interscapular region, while 
the lower back and rump, as well as the longer feathers of 
the sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts, are white, with one 
or two narrow concentric black bands, producing an elegant 
scaled appearance. It resembles M. serrator in having two 
long crests, one situated on the occipital and the other on 
the nuchal region, the longest feathers of each measuring 
respectively 4*4 and 4*3 inches; and the exposed basal half 
of the outer webs of the secondaries and their coverts black, 
forming two black bars across the wing. From M. serrator , 
to which, perhaps, it is most nearly allied, it may be at once 
distinguished by the uniform colour of the chest, as well as 
