50 WATER FOWL OF INDIA AND ASIA. 
black bill. Another Pochard also occurs in America 
still more like our bird (N. americana) ; this has yellow 
eyes and less black on the bill. 
The Scaup. 
Nyroca marila, BLANFORD, Faun. Brit. Ind., 
Birds, Vol. IV, p. 462. 
VERNACULAR NAMES.—None known. 
This species is very like the Red-headed Pochard in 
size and general pattern of colour, but has a shorter and 
very much broader bill, this being much wider at the tip 
than at the base. 
The male has a deep black-green head, and a black 
breast, rump, and stern ; the body is coarsely pencilled 
black and white, and the quills black with a white bar 
on the secondaries and white shading on the inner pri- 
maries ; the belly is white. 
The female has a brown head and breast, the latter 
gradually passing into the white of the belly ; there is a 
white band round the root of the bill; the pattern of 
colour generally is the same as the male but with brown 
instead of black; the male in undress has a_ similar 
plumage. 
The young are of a genera] dirty brown colour with a 
white face as in females, and with brown and white 
wings like theirs; the belly is also white. The eyes 
are always yellow in this species, apparently, certainly 
im males. 
The Scaup inhabits the whole of the north temperate 
zone, breeding to the north and going south in winter. 
It lays eight or nine dirty buff eggs. It is chiefly, in 
Europe at all events, a salt-water bird, and it is pro- 
bably for this reason that it has been very rarely re- 
corded from India. But it has occurred in Kashmir, 
