FULIGULA. 



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A specimen of a female in the Kurrachee INIuseum measures — Length, 177S 

 inches, wing 7-5, tail 2-8, bill at front 1-62, greatest width 081 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 w^hite 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 Nepaul. 



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 occurrence in Sind beyond doubt. The 

 female specimen described was obtained in 1879 at the " One Tree Tank,'' 

 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. 



Fuligula ferina. The Pochard. 



238. Fuligula ferina {Linn), Bodd. Tab. p. E. 803 ; Gould, B. 

 Eur. pi. 367. Athya ferina, Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 812 ; Murray, Hdbk., ZooL, 

 8fc., Sind, p. 239; ui., Vert. ZooL, Sind, p. 307; L/ume, Game Birds Ind. iii. 

 p. 249; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 700, No. 1402.— 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 

 transverse striae of black and white ; rump, upper tail coverts and vent black ; 

 rest of under parts from below the breast covered with delicate zigzag trans- 

 verse striae as on the back ; primaries dusky brown, with dusky tips ; secon- 



