The Pochards. 329. 



eyed Pochard of Upper Burma, but I 

 have never had the opportunity offered 

 me of examining the Pochard which is 

 so abundant near Mandalay. I may, 

 however, state that when Veterinary 

 Captain G. H. Evans came to the 

 Natural History Museum some little time 

 ago, I happened to have specimens of 

 all the Indian Ducks exposed to view 

 on tables, and he immediately picked out 

 the Eastern White-eyed Pochard as the 

 species he had met with near Myingyan. 



Although there is a specimen of this 

 Pochard in the Indian Museum, at Cal- 

 cutta, dating back to 1842, it was not 

 until quite recently that Mr. F. Finn drew 

 attention to the two allied species and 

 separated them. He appears to have 

 procured many specimens of the Eastern 

 species between November 25th and 

 January 5th in the Calcutta market, and 

 he remarks that for a short time after 

 their first appearance they are as common 

 as their Western relative. He also no- 

 ticed the Eastern species in the Calcutta 

 market in February. 



The present species is only a winter 

 visitor to the eastern part of the Empire. 

 It is probably this Pochard which Mr. 

 Inglis procured in Cachar. It is doubt- 



