306 FULIGULIN^. 



measures~I^e/ify^/t 17*75 inches, wing 7'5,tail 28, bill at front 1*62, great- 

 est widtla 0'81. The forehead, crown and nape are chocolate brown, with 

 a faint gloss ; a band of white (loreal) at the base of the bill 0*43 wide, 

 tinged with rufous ; chin rufescent white ; throat slightly paler than the 

 head ; lower neck and breast pale brown, the feathers edged with 

 pale rufescent or earthy brown ; abdomen satin white ; sides of the 

 vent brownish, with a few white spots ; back, scapulars, tertials, wing- 

 coverts and rump and upper tail-coverts dark brown, with a slight gloss ; 

 the feathers of the upper back very narrowly edged paler ; primaries 

 dark brown on their outer webs, and tips earthy brown on their inner 

 webs; secondaries white, broadly tipped with dark brown and narrowly 

 edged the same on their outer webs ; tail dark brown; irides yellow. 



Hab. — Sind, Cashmere and Nepanl. 



It was not till I took up the Scaups for examination in connection 

 with this work, that I detected this species ; like Mr. Hume I had it 

 ticketed as nyroca. Mr. Hume's plate of the female of this species, 

 and his description of the specimens in his museum puts its occurence 

 in Sind beyond doubt. The female specimen described was obtained 

 in 1879 at the " One Tree Tanh," about six miles north of Kurrachee, 

 on the road to Muggur Peer. I believe now that I had the male also^ 

 but just at present it is nowhere to be found. 



Faligula ferina. The Pochard. 



Fuli^la ferina, Lin. ; P. E. 803 ; Gould. B. Enr. pL 367. 

 Athya ferina, Jcnl B. hid. iii. p. 812 ; Murray, HdhJc., ZooL, S^c, Sind, 

 p. 239; Hume, Game Birds Ind. iii. p. 24-9.— The Pochard, Dun- 

 BiRD or Great-headed Wigeon. 



Head and neck rich or very deep chestnut, glossed with purple in 

 some lights ; breast black ; back, scapulars and wing-coverts marked 

 with undulating transvei^se stria3 of black and white; rump, upper tail- 

 coverts and vent black ; rest of under parts from below the 

 breast covered with delicate zigzag transverse strife as on the back; 

 primaries dusky brown, with dusky tips; secondaries lead or bluish 

 grey, tinged with brown, and slightly tipped with dull white; tail dark 

 brownish ash. 



