62 ANATID^. 



Anas erytlirocephala, Bonn, {nee S. G. Gm.) Enc. Meth. i. p. 143, 



pi. 35."f. 3(171)0). 

 Fuligula caryophyllacea, Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. 2, p. 207 (1824). 

 Milouin a coli rose, Less. Tr. cCOrn. p. 632, u. 40 (Bengala) (1831) ; 



Pucker. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1850, p. 636 ( = A. caryophyllacea) ; 



Hartl. J.f. O. 1855, p. 420. 

 Callichen caryopliyllaceum, Eyt. Mon. Anat. p. 152 (1838). 

 Tadoma ? carvophyllacea, Jei-d. Madr. Joum. xii. p. 221, n. 368 



(1840). 

 Khodonessa carvophyllacea, Echnb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. ix (1852) ; 



Bj}. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 649, n. 77 (1856) ; G. JR. Gr. Cat. 



Hodgs. Coll. B. M. 2nd ed. p. 77 (1863) ; id. Hand-list, iii. p. 82, 



n. 10654 (1871) ; Sundev. Meth. nat.Av. disp. Tent.f. 147 (1872); 



Ball, Str. Feath. ii. p. 438 (Cliota Nagpur) (1874) ; Garrod, 



P. Z. S. 1875, p. 153 (trachea), f. 3 2, ft". 4, 5 S ; Hume, Str. 



Feath. viii. p. 115, n. 960 (1879) ; ScM. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 520 ; 



Butler, Str. Feath. ix. p. 437 (1881) ; Beid, Str. Feath. x. p. 81 



(Lucknow) (1881); Hume <^ Marsh. Game-Birds of Ind. iii. 



pp. 173, 435,pl. 23 (1880) ; Salt. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 535 (1882) ; 



Oates, B. Brit. Bttrm. ii. p. 284 (1883) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 



8th ed. p. 432 (1883) ; H Taylor, Str. Feath. x. p. 531 (breedbg 



inKliorda, Orissa) (1887) ; Htnue, Str. Feath. xi. p. 344 (Manipur, 



Sylhet, Assam) (1888); Hume, Nests S^ Eygs (Oates ed.), iii. 



p." 290 (1890). 



Adxdt male. Head, sides of neck, and hind neck 'beautiful pale 

 rosy pink, with, in the breeding-season, a small tuft of still brighter 

 rosy on the top of the head ; throat dark brown ; rest of the 

 iilumage fine glossy dark chocolate-brown, paler and less glossed 

 beneath, but under tail-coverts very dark ; mantle, scapulars, breast, 

 and sides with very fine rosj'-whitish vermiculations or points; 

 edge of the wing whitish, speculum reddish-fawn or dull salmon- 

 colour, with a white band at the tip of the secondaries ; outer web 

 and tip of the outer primaries brown, the inner web and inner 

 primaries buff; tertials glossy chocolate-brown, narrowly edged 

 with black on the outer web ; under wing-coverts and quiUs 

 beneath pale pink colour, with a satin lustre; tail chocolate-brown : 

 " bill reddish white, rosy at the base and faintly bluish at the tip; 

 irides fine orange-red ; legs and feet blackish, with a tinge of red " 

 (Jerdo7i). Length about 24 inches, wiug 10-5, tail 4-25, culmen 

 2*1, tarsus 1*6. 



Female. Similar to the male, but duller and paler, and more of a 

 smoky brown ; the pink of the head is dingier and paler, and there 

 is a "broad brown medial band from forehead over crown and 

 occiput, and (diminishing rapidly in width) on the back of the 

 upper neck ; but the most conspicuous difference is that the dull 

 pink of the face runs on, unbroken, over the entire chin and throat, 

 so that there is no trace of the dark band along chin and throat so 

 conspicuous in the male : " bill pinkish brown, with the base dull 

 white : irides dull orange ; tarsi, toes, webs, and nails purplish slate " 

 (Shinincfford). 



Young hirds have the head and neck pale rose-whitish colour, 

 with the top of the head, nape, and hind neck brown ; the whole 



