JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Natural gistaru ^mttii 



Vol. XII. BOMBAY. No. 4. 



INDIAN DUCKS AND THEIR ALLIES. 



By E. C. Stuart Baker, F.Z.S. 



Part VIII, with Plate VIII. 



{Continued fr om page 464 of this Volume.) 



Sub-Family Fdligulin^. 



This sub-family is divided from those already written about by 

 having the hind-toe broadly lobed ; wher«as the latter have the hind- 

 toe either with no lobe at all, or else with only a very narrow one. 

 Blanford does not divide the FuUgulinm from the Anatince, but the 

 division seems to be a very natural one, the members of the sub-family 

 differing from those of others, not only in construction, but also, con- 

 siderably, in habits as well. 



The separation of Erismatura is by no means so distinct, and the 

 genus is not, in my opinion, worthy of separation from the FuUguUncK 

 and the honour of a sub-family to itself. Having however followed 

 Salvadori in his classification throughout so many numbers of this 

 article, it is better, perhaps, for the sake of uniformity, not to differ 

 from it now. 



Erismatura differs from those ducks included by Salvadori in his 

 sub-family FuUgulince in certain external structural particulars^ 

 principally in the swollen base to the upper mandible and in its 

 remarkable tail, the which, as Blanford remarks, looks as if it might 

 be that of a woodpecker. 



