404 ANATINA. 
brown edgings; a dark brown line from the upper mandible 
through the eye ending in a point; supercilium, whole face, and 
neck dingy fulvous with small brown streaks, enlarging on the 
lower neck; upper plumage, including the lesser and median 
wing-coverts and scapulars, hair-brown; greater-coverts white, 
edged with deep black ; primaries brown ; secondaries, forming a 
conspicuous speculum, glossy green, with a black tip, narrowly 
edged with white on the innermost feathers; tertiaries white 
externally (forming a continuous line with the white coverts), 
hair-brown internally; lower back and rump black; tail deep 
brown ; beneath, from the breast, pale earthy or dingy-white, with 
numerous brown spots, increasing in size on the abdomen and 
flanks ; vent and under tail-coverts deep blackish-brown. 
The Grey Duck is a more or less tolerably common permanent 
resident throughout the district. It is a very good eating bird, 
almost when in good condition rivalling the Mallard in flavor 
and delicacy. It breeds towards the close of the rains, making a 
nest amongst sedges and rushes. The eggs, six or seven in number, 
are broad ovals, white or greyish-white in color, measuring 2°16 
inches in length by about 1°71 in breadth. 
Anas (Rhodonessa) caryophyllacea, Latham. 
960.—Jerdon’s Birds of India Vol. II, p. 800; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 487; Game Birds of India, Vol. 
III, p. 173; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, 
p- 187. 
THE PINK-HEADED DUCK. , 
Length, 24; wing, 10°75; tail, 4°75; expanse, 34°5; bill at 
front, 2°37 ; weight, 2 lbs. 
Bill reddish-white, rosy at base, and faintly bluish at tip ; irides 
deep orange-red ; legs and feet dark slate or blackish. 
Male, with the head, cheeks, sides of neck, and hind-neck, 
beautiful pale rosy-pink, with, in the breeding season, a small 
tuft of still brighter rosy on the top of the head; the rest of the 
plumage fine glossy dark chocolate-brown, paler and less glossed 
beneath ; speculum and the inner webs of many of the quills 
pale reddish-fawn or dull salmon color; edge of the wing white ; 
uppermost tertiaries rich glossy green; lower wing-coverts and 
quills beneath pale dull pink color, with a satiny lustre. 
The female has the pink of the head somewhat more dull and 
pale, and the vertex has a brownish spot in some, which is con- 
tinued faintly down the back of the neck. 
Young birds have the head and neck pale vinous-isabella color, 
with the top of the head, nape, and hind-neck, brown; the 
whole plumage lighter brown, in some mixed with whitish 
beneath. 
Colonel Swinhoe found the Pink-headed Duck very plentiful at 
the Depalpore Lake near Mhow. It does not appear to have been 
recorded from elsewhere within our limits. 
