FULIGULA. 307 



The female lias tlie head, neck and nape chestnut or reddish brown ; 

 the breast of deeper chestnut ; the wing-coverts ashy ; upper parts as 

 in the male, but the lines less distinct ; throat and forepart of the neck 

 reddish white ; abdomen ashy or greyish white ; bill dark plumbeous ; 

 irides orange yellow ; legs and feet slaty grey or plumbeous. 



Lenqth.— 18-0 to 18-5 inches, wing S'O to 8-5, tail 2'35 to 3-0, bill 

 2-15 to 2-25. 



Hab. — Siud, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, Punjab, N. W. and 

 Central Provinces, Oudh, Rajputana, Kutch, Guzerat, Kattiawar, Central 

 India, Northern parts of Southern India, and the Deccan. In the 

 Concan it occurs but only as a straggler; it is not recorded from Ceylon, 

 nor from Nepaul. 



The Pochard makes it appearance in Sind about the end of October, 

 and in the Punjab dui'ing November. It is usually found in large 

 flocks, affecting the sea as well as inland creeks and fresh waters ; its 

 chief food is molluscs ; seeds, flower buds of aquatic plants and algas 

 also when on the sea, probably such algfe as are detached and found 

 drifting in fresh waters. The Pochards affect deep weedy jheels, keeping 

 well under cover during the day, and feeding chiefly by night ; they 

 fly with greater rapidity than the Mallards, and unless their haunts 

 have not been shot over, they are very wary and difficult to approach. 



Fuligula nyroca, Gnld.; P. E. 1000; Gould. B. Eur. pi. 367; 

 Naum. Vogi. t. 309; Jerd. B. Ind. m. -p. 813; Murray, Hdhk., ZouL, 

 <5"c., Sind, p. 239 ; Hume, Game Birds Iiid. iii. p. 263. [Bnrnoo, Siiid; 

 Karcheeya, Punjab.) — The White-eyed Pochard or Fekkuginous 

 Duck. 



Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the face, throat and upper neck all 

 round deep ferruginous ; breast and sides of the breast the same ; chin 

 with a triangular patch of white; a black collar on the lower part of 

 the neck, which behind runs into the purplish glossed dark brown of 

 the back; scapulars and tertials dark brown, also the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts; abdomen pure white; flanks ferruginous; lower abdo- 

 men and vent ferruginous brown, with white specklings ; lower tail- 

 coverts white ; tail dusky brown ; lessor, median and greater wing-covorts 

 dusky brown; secondaries white, broadly tipped with dark brown ; 

 end of the wing white, also the bases of the inner primaries, and their 

 inner webs ; outer webs dusky blackish brown ; axillaries white ; bill 

 bluish ; irides white. 



Length. — 15'5 to 16'0 inches, wing 7'5 to 7' 75, tail 2"0, bill at front 

 1-9 to 2-0. 



The female has the head and neck brown, the feathers edged with 

 ferruginous ; chin white, but less extended ; breast brown, the feathers 

 margined with pale chestnut brown ; abdomen dull white ; edge of the 

 wing white ; secondaries white, tipped with black. 

 Length. — 14 to 15 inches, wing 7*72. 



Hab. — Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan and throughout India, 

 except South India and Ceylon. Occurs in Nepaul, Gilgit and 

 Easterri and Western Turkistan, in which latter it breeds. " lu the 



