184 ANATID^. 



Burm. p. 165 ; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds iii. p. 165, p], ; Legge, B. 

 Ceylon p. 1073 ; Murray, Vert. Zool. Si'nd, p. 292 ; Oa/es, B, Br. Burm. ii. 

 p. 282; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 684, No. 1 388. — The Spotted 

 Billed Duck. 



Top of head to the nape behind dark sepia brown, also a Hne from the base 

 of the upper mandible through the eye, ending in a point behind ; superci- 

 lium, sides of the face and neck dingy fulvous, minutely speckled with 

 brown ; lower neck, breast and abdomen the same, the brown spots larger 

 than on the upper neck, and increasing in size on the breast, abdomen and 

 flanks ; chin and throat unspotted fulvous ; upper back, scapulars and lesser 

 and median wing coverts hair brown ; lower back and rump black ; primaries 

 deep brown ; secondaries brown on their inner webs ; speculum on their outer 

 webs, rich emerald glossy green, tipped with black, the black tips of the 

 innermost narrowly edged with white; greater wing coverts sepia brown at 

 base, with a subterminal white band and tipped with black ; tertiaries white on 

 their outer webs and hair brown on their inner ; tail deep brown, the central 

 feathers darker; vent and under tail coverts nearly black ; under wing coverts 

 white ; bill black, with a spot of red at the base, and yellow at the tip ; legs 

 and feet vermilion red ; irides deep brown. 



Length.— il'^ to 25-9; wing lO'S to ii; tail 475 to 575 ; tarsus 1-85 to 

 1*93 ; bill from gape 2-5 to 275. Females are slightly smaller. 



}{ah. — A permanent resident in India. Breeds in Sind and the Punjab. 

 Found in large numbers in Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, the drier parts of the 

 Punjab and Rajputana, also in the N.-W. and Central Provinces, Oudh, 

 Kutch, Guzerat and the Deccan. 



Affects large lakes, ponds, brushy or weedy tanks, and often the banks of 

 rivers, feeding on worms, molluscs, insects, larvae, young shoots of grass, &c. 

 Mr. Hume says {Game B. iii. p. 168) "that the breeding season of this duck 

 varies a great deal with locality ;" in the N.-W. Provinces and Oudh, also the 

 eastern portions of Rajputana and the Punjab, July, August and September are 

 the months ; in Guzerat, October. In Sind Mr. Doig obtained eggs at the 

 latter end of April and May on a small island covered with long grass in the 

 middle of the Narra. 



226. Anas caryophyllacea, Lath., hid. Om. ii. p. 866; Jerd., 



B. hid. ii. p. 800 ; Buine, Nests and Eggs hid. B. p. 644 ; Blyth, B. Burm. 

 p. 165 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. hid. ii. p. 685, No. 1389 Rhodonessa caryo- 

 phyllacea, Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 115 ; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds iii. 

 p. 173, pi. ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 284 — The Pink-headed Duck. 



Whole head, sides and back of the neck rosy pink ; entire front of neck, 

 lower plumage, back, rump, upper tail coverts, tail, upper wing coverts, scapu- 

 lars and tertiaries dark glossy brown ; secondaries salmon colour, forming a spe- 

 culum ; primaries brownish salmon colour, paler on the inner webs ; edge of 



