bare space before the eye yellowish green.' (Seebohm.) Length, about 610; culmen, 69; wing, 330; tail 112; tarsus, 96. "Two of the three specimens collected by Mr. Robert Bergman at Yokohama are apparently young birds and have the primary-coverts and quills almost uniform, with a certain amount of rufous mottlings confined to the inner webs; in this state of plumage B. stellaris has a great resemblance to B. poeciloptilus but is always to be distinguished from the last-named bird by the tawny-colored frill on the sides of the neck, instead of the smoky brown one peculiar to the Australian bird." (Sharpe.) Order ANSERIFORMES. DUCKS AND GEESE. Bill stout, compressed at base, flattened at tip, which is blunt or rounded or rarely spatulate (Spatula), and covered with soft, leathery membrane except the hard overhanging "nail" at tip; nostril from subbasal to subterminal, open and usually oval; neck small and usually long; body compact, heavy, flattened, densely covered with short feathers; wings stiff, strong, and rather pointed; tail usually short and rounded and fairly stiff, never forked and but rarely long and pointed (Dafila); legs short; toes stout and palmate; hind toe simple or lobate. Eggs six to one dozen or more, white, cream-color, or light buff; nest usually lined with down from the breast of the old bird; young covered with down and able to swim at birth. [20] Family ANATIDÆ. Characters same as those given for the Order. Subfamilies. a1. Smaller; culmen less than 25 mm.; throat, breast, and abdomen white. ... Plectropterinæ (p. 185) a2. Larger; culmen more than 32 mm.; throat, breast, and abdomen not uniform in color. b1. Head, neck, and breast not of a uniform color; no occipital crest. ... Anatinæ (p. 187) b2. Head, neck, and breast brownish black, in adult male glossy black; adult male with a pointed occipital crest. ... Marilinæ (p. 197) Subfamily PLECTROPTERINÆ. Genus NETTAPUS Brandt, 1836. Members of this genus are distinguished by their small size and short stout bill. 154. NETTAPUS COROMANDELIANUS (Gmelin). INDIAN DWARF GOOSE. Anas coromandeliana Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, pt. 2, 522. Nettopus coromandelianus Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1895), 27, 68; Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 433, fig. 110 (head); Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 209; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 144; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 36. Pa-ti-kí, Manila. Luzon (Zelebor, Worcester, McGregor). Indian Peninsula, Burmese countries, Greater Sunda Islands, China, Celebes.