202 ANATID^. 



♦' Male. — The bill is black ; the iris yellow; the feet orange yellow with 

 the webs dusky ; the claws brownish black. 



"•Length. — To end of tail 19 inches ; extent of wings 32; wing from flexure 

 9 ; tail 4 ; bill along the edge 1-42 ; tarsus 1-42. 



^^ Female. — The female is much smaller, and has the bill less stout; the 

 feathers of the head less elongated, and less glossy, as are the scapulars and 

 the feathers of the sides; the bill is light brown, yellov/ish on the 

 ridge towards the end, with the upper unguis dusky ; the lower yellowish 

 brown ; the tarsi and toes are of a dingy yellowish brown ; the inter-digital 

 membranes dusky ; the claws brown ;: the head and upper neck are umber 

 brown ; the loAver neck all round dull ash grey, the feathers terminally edged 

 with paler ; the lower parts are white, but the sides of the body and rump 

 •with part of the abdomen, are grey ; the axillary and lower wing covert 

 brownish grey ; the back and scapulars are deep ash grey, but on the hind 

 part of back that colour shades into black ; the tail dark brown, tinged with 

 grey ; the smaller wing coverts are deep grey, many of them tipped with pale 

 grey; the primaries, their coverts, four outer secondaries, and five inner, with 

 their coverts, brownish black ; the seven other secondaries pure white, as are 

 their coverts, unless at the base. 



" Le?igth.— To end of tail 16 inches ; expanse 28 ; wing 8*25 ; tail 3*25 ; bill 

 along the ridge 1*25; tarsus 1-25." — {MacGillivray, Br, B. ex Str. F. vii. 

 p. 441.) 



Hah. — Sind, Lucknow {Bonavia), North Afghanistan. 



This species has not to my knowledge been obtained in Sind during the 

 last thirteen years. " Sir A. Burnes obtained a specimen on the Indus, which 

 is figured among his drawings in the possession of the Asiatic Society." 



Gen. Erismatura. 



Tail of 18, stiff feathers, bare at the tips, and the webs much disunited. 



241. Erismatura leUCOCephala {Scop.), Hume, Game Birds 

 Lid. iii. pp. 290, 436; Murray, Avif. Brit. Lid. ii, p. 703, No. 1405. — The 

 Stiff- TAILED White-faced Duck, 



Crown black ; forehead, sides of the head, including the space above the eye, 

 chin and nape pure white ; below this white the neck is black with a few buffy 

 brown dots on the forepart ; lower neck to the forepart of the back, except in 

 the centre, chestnut red, which extends to the foreneck and upper breast, where 

 it is delicately marked with buffy white ; back and scapulars ochreous or 

 reddish buff ; rump darker, brownish or finely vermiculated with blackish ; 

 lower rump and upper tail coverts chestnut red ; quills greyish black, the 

 secondaries externally and the larger wing coverts greyish buff, vermiculated 

 with blackish grey ; lesser coverts dull ashy, but slightly vermiculated ; tail 

 long and stiff and blackish in colour, under parts buffy white, obscurely 



