A Manual of Philippine Birds

by Richard C. McGregor

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.