414 FULIGULINA. 
Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 305; Game Birds of India, 
~ Vol. III, p. 271. 
THE Scaup PocHARD. 
Length, 18 to 20; expanse, 28 to32; wing, 8 to 9; tail, 
2°5 to 2°75 ; tarsus, 1°33 to 1°42 ; bill at front, 16 to 1:9. . 
Bill, g, bluish, beneath dusky, black at tip; 9%, deep grey; 
irides brilliant yellow ; legs bluish-ashy ; webs dusky. 
Male, head and neck, black, glossed with green ; top of the back 
and scapulars whitish, with zigzag black lines; lower back and 
upper tail-coverts black; tail brown ; wing-coverts black, marbled 
with ashy ; speculum white; quills brown; lower neck and breast 
deep black; abdomen and sides pure white, with brown zigzag 
markings on the lower portion ; under tail-coverts black. 
_ The female has the head and neck blackish brown, with a large 
white space round the eye; back, scapulars, and wings, with 
brown and white zigzag markings ; lower back and upper tail- 
coverts smoky black ; lower neck and breast deep brown ; abdo- 
men white, marked with brown posteriorly. 
The Scaup Pochard occurs in Sind. It is usually passed over as 
a White-eye. 
Fuligula cristata, Ray. 
971.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. IL, p. 815 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 31; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 438; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 304; 
Game Birds of India, Vol. III, p. 277; Swinhoe and Barnes, 
Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 138. 
THE CRESTED POCHARD. 
Length, 15:2 to 17:2 ; expanse, 267 to 30°3; wing, 7°6 to 85; 
tail, 2°5 to 325; tarsus, 1:2 to 14; bill from gape, 1°81 to 2 ; 
weight, 1,5; to 24 lbs. 
Bill dark bluish-grey, black at tip ; rides golden yellow ; legs 
leaden ; webs dusky. 
Head and neck, including the long pendent, silky crest, glossy 
black with green and purple reflections ; back, wings, and rump, 
black, slightly glossed and powdered with greyish white ; breast 
glossy black ; rest of the lower parts pure white ; the vent black ; 
speculum, formed by the secondaries, white, with a narrow green- 
ish-black edge; tertials glossy-green. 
The female has the colors somewhat duller and more brown ; 
the crest not so long ; speculum smaller ; and the lower parts 
spotted with brown. 
The young want the crest, and have the base of the bill and 
region of the eyes varied with white. 
The Tufted Pochard is more or less common throughout the 
whole region, less in Sind, perhaps, than elsewhere. It is quite 
abundant in Central India. It is not a particularly good bird 
for the table, but at times it is eatable. 
