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pale, dingy, greenish-drab, more or less, in most cases, tinged with 

 yellow. They average about 2*4: in length by 1'7 in breadth." 



The eggs in my collection are dull, rather dark, brownish-drab, but 

 have little or no trace of either green or yellow in them, though they 

 may have had when fresh. In shape and texture they agree with 

 Hume's description, but one egg has a decided, though faint, gloss. 

 My eggs average about 2'25" by 1*7". As with other Pochards' eggs, 

 they have a rather fragile shell. 



32. Nyroca baeri. 

 The Eastern Wliite-eye, 

 Fuligula haeri, Finn, P. A. S. B., 96, p. 61 ; tbid, Jour., A. S. B., 

 LXVI, pt. 2, p. 525 ; ibid, " Indian Ducks," Asian, 1899. 



Nyroca baeri, Salvadori, Cat., " Birds of British Museum " XXVII, 

 p. 344 ; Blanford, " Avifauna of British India," IV, p. 461. 



Description : Adult Male, — A large spot at the angle of the chin, pure 

 white ; the remainder of the head and neck black, glossed with green ; 

 breast rufous-chestnut, that colour merging into the black of the head, 

 but sharply defined from the white of the abdomen and under-tail 

 coverts ; the feathers of the vent brownish at the base; flanks rufous- 

 brown ; upper parts dark brown ; the scapulars and interscapulars very 

 finely covered with narrow bars of lighter brown ; rump and upper- 

 tail coverts brownish-black, a few of the feathers at the side finely 

 vermiculated with white ; tail brown ; wing coverts dark brown, the 

 outer secondaries white, with a broad subterminal black band ; quills 

 brown, the inner webs of the primaries greyish-brown; the inner 

 secondaries very dark brown, in good specimens very narrowly margined 

 black on nearly the whole of the outer web and glossed with olive-green. 

 Bill dull slate-blue, the basal third, tip and nail nearly black ; irides 

 white ; legs and feet greyish-lead, joints and webs darker. 



" Feet lead-grey, with the joints darker ; irides white or pale yellow " 

 (Salvadori). 



Length 1«" to 20" ; wing 8*2" to 9-5" ; bill from point of forehead 

 1*75", from extreme base 2*2", from gape 2'1", breadth at base '73" and 

 at broadest part "86" ; tarsus 1*4". 



Adult Female. — Like the male, but the head is blackish-brown, un- 

 glossedwith green, and has the anterior part rufous ; the spot on the chin 

 appears to be smaller, and the throat and lower part of the neck are 



