. The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon . ing to Halvadori, there are seven species in this genus, buthe divides Merganser merganser into two species, and the Indianform he designates Merganser comatus and distinguishes as being somewhat smaller, the feathers of the crest thinner, narrower andlonger; the bill usually shorter; the male has tlie black edges ofthe tertials broader, the lower baclv and rump paler grey, and usuallymuch freckled with white. The Eastern form had, however, already been given a name byGould in , orientalis, which will have to be used instead ofcomatus. No simp
. The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon . ing to Halvadori, there are seven species in this genus, buthe divides Merganser merganser into two species, and the Indianform he designates Merganser comatus and distinguishes as being somewhat smaller, the feathers of the crest thinner, narrower andlonger; the bill usually shorter; the male has tlie black edges ofthe tertials broader, the lower baclv and rump paler grey, and usuallymuch freckled with white. The Eastern form had, however, already been given a name byGould in , orientalis, which will have to be used instead ofcomatus. No simpler key to the two Indian species can be found thanBlanfords which I give below ; — i\. Head and upper neck black glossed with green, (.\dultmales.) ((. Lower parts white throughout M. inavganscy. Ii. Upper breast rufous with black marks M. Herrator. B. Head and upper neck rufous. (Females and non-adultmales.) (■. Chin white, back grey -1/. iiwrijaii^cr. d. Chin streaked with rufous, ijack brown J/, scrrator. .^ Plate XXX •■••- V. # ■>s??.- THE RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. Merganser serraton /3 nat size. MERGANSER MERGANSER ORIEXTALIS 317 (47) MERGANSER MERGANSER EASTERN GOOSANDER. Mergus orientalis, dould, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 1 (Amoy). Mergus merganser, Hnuw, Cat. No. 972 ; Seidh/, S. F. viii,p. 364 ; Hume if Mavfih. (iamc-B. iii, p. 299 : Hittnc tf Crippii, ibid. xi,p. 347 ; AMcn, J. B. X. H. S. ii, p. .56. Mergus castor, Jerfhn, B. of I. iii, p. 817 ; Hiimf. S. F. i, p. 423 ; Parkei;ihul. ii, p. 336 ; Ball, ibid. p. 439 ; Hume, ihld. vii, p. 149 ; Ball,ibid. p. 233, Merganser castor, Blanford, Avifauna B. I. iv, p. 469 : Oaten, Game-B. ii, p, 123 ; .Stuart Baker, J. B. N. H. S. xiii, p. 207 (1900) ; id. Indian p. 271 (1908) ; , J. B. X. H. S. xiv, p. 393 ; }\liitehead, J. Ii. X. H. S. xx, p. 980 (1911); (liidlestmir. ibid, xxi, p. 275 (1911) : Tncilis, ibid, xxiv, p. 600 (1916),Merganser merganser, , Game-B. ii, p. 390,Merganser
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