99. THE LARGE WHISTLING 

 DUCK. 



Dendrocycna fulva^ (Gmelin). 



Primaries uniformly black. 

 Axillaries and under wing-coverts black. 

 Upper wing-coverts largely maroon. 

 Upper tail-coverts yellowish white. 

 A black band down the hindneck. 



Sexes alike. 



Vernacular Names:— The same pro- 

 bably as those given to the Small 

 Whistling Teal. 



The Large Whistling Duck is altogether a 

 less common bird than its ally, the Small 

 Whistling Duck, but, like it, is found over 

 nearly the whole of the Indian Empire. 



On the north-west it extends to Sind, 

 where it has been found breeding, and to 

 Bhawulpur in the Punjab. Its northern 

 limit appears to be the Himalayas. 

 Thence it ranges south throughout the 

 peninsula in a somewhat irregular manner, 

 fairly common in some parts, absent in 

 others, to the extreme southern point of 



