Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author.

  • Edward Blyth
Date:
1875
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Credit: Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Darters. 1G5 Fam. Plotidse. * Darters. *615. PLOTUS MELANOGASTER (J. 1008). Ten-gyie. Arakan, Tenasscrim. Enormous flocks near Mcngoon {J. Anderson). The alleged Australian species (P. novcehollandice, Gould) differs in no respect. [Tonghoo (TF. P.).] Tribe LAMELLIROSTRES. Fam. Anatidse. *646. Sarcidiornis melanonotus (J. 950). Tau-won-bai. Common. [Tonghoo (TF. P.).] *647. Dexdrocygxa arcuata (J. 952). Common. D. major is also included by Mason. [Tonghoo (IF. P.).] *648. Casarca rutila (J. 954). Arakan, Bhamo. 649. C. leucoptera (J. 955). Inhabits the valleys of the great rivers, from the Megna at least to the Tenasserim. The Anas scutulata, S. Miiller, seems to be a domesticated, if not hybrid, variety of this species, and the examples of it in the British and Leyden Museums have much intermixture of white in the plumage. *650. Nettopus coromandelianus (J. 951). Karagat. Common. [Tonghoo (TF. P.).] *651. Anas pceciloriiyncha (J. 959). Arakan, Bhamo, Tenasserim. *652. A. CARYOPHYLLACEA (J. 960). A. caryophyllacea, Latham ; Gray and Mitchell, Gen. Birds, pi. 168. Arakan, Bhamo.