FULIGULIN A. 413 
white, with numerous fine undulating black lines; rump and 
upper tail-coverts black; tail dark ashy-brown; primaries deep 
dusky-brown; secondaries bluish-grey ; breast black; abdomen 
whitish, faintly undulated like the back, the lines becoming 
darker towards the vent ; under tail-coverts black. 
The female has the crown, nape, and sides of the neck, and 
the upper part of the back, reddish-brown; the back as in the 
male, but the lines less distinct; throat and forepart of the 
neck white, mixed with reddish; breast reddish-brown, mottled 
with white ; the middle of the abdomen greyish-white, . 
The Pochard or Dun-bird is common in Sind during the cold 
weather; it is not uncommon in Guzerat and Rajputana, but 
is less so in the Deccan. When in good condition the Pochard 
is not bad eating ; if not disturbed much, they are by no means 
shy, but when often fired at they soon become wary. 
Fuligula nyroca, Guid, 
969.—Aythya nyroca, Guld.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. III, 
p. 813; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p- 80; Deccan, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 439; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology 
of Sind, p. 301; Game Birds of India, Vol. ITT, p. 263; Nyroca 
ferruginea, Gmel.; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 
1885, p. 138. 
THE WHITE-EYED PocHarp. 
Length, 16 to 17; expanse, 24 to 27°55; wing, 6°75 to 7°5 ; tail, 
3 to 35; tarsus, 1 to 1:25; bill from gape, 19 to 213 weight, 
1 3, to 1,2, Ibs. 
Bill bluish ; irides white ; legs grey. 
Male, head and neck deep ferruginous, with a narrow collar of 
blackish-brown on the lower part of the neck ; back, scapulars and 
wing-coverts, dusky brown, somewhat glossed with green and 
purple, and the whole finely powdered with pale reddish-brown ; 
upper tail-coverts and tail dusky-brown, with a dash of ferrugi- 
nous ; primaries dusky ; speculum white, edged with black in the 
lower part ; chin whitish ; lower part of the neck and breast 
bright ferruginous ; abdomen and under tail-coverts pure-white ; 
the lower portion and vent blackish grey. 
The female differs from the male in ‘the head and neck being 
brown, the feathers edged with ferruginous ; the upper parts are 
glossy umber brown, the feathers edged with pale brown; the 
irides are less pure white, and the bill and fect are dusky-grey ; 
otherwise as in the male. The White-eyed Pochard occurs more 
or less abundantly throughout the region. 
It is by no means wary, but is not sought after by sportsmen, 
as it is at the best of times but indifferent eating. 
Fuligula marila, Lin. 
970.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p- S14; Murray’s 
