WATER FOWL OF INDIA AND ASIA. Sr 
Kulu, Nepal, the neighbourhood of Attock, Gurgaon 
near Delhi, Karachi, and Bombay. 
The Tufted Pochard. 
Nyroca fuligula, BLANFORD, Faun. Brit. Ind., 
Birds Vole FY. :p. 463. 
VERNACULAR NAMES.—Dubaru, Ablak, Rohwora, 
H.; Yurando, Sind; Malac, Nepal Terai; 
Nella Chilluwa, Tel.; Neer bathoo, Tamil ; 
Neer-kolee, Canarese. 
This is, if not a graceful, a neat-looking little Duck, 
with a short bill, much broadened towards the tip as in 
fae scaup, and a very compact ““tubby ”’ form ; the 
head has a narrow crest, small in females and very small 
in young, but long and tassel-like in full plumaged 
males, in which it hangs far down. The male is easily 
distinguished by his black and white colouration, nearly 
the whole plumage being black, but the belly and sides 
are pure white, there being also the usual white on the 
quills. The inner quills are glossed with green, and the 
head with purple. In undress the crest is shorter and 
the flanks clouded with a black pencilling. 
The female has the same distribution of colour, but 
the white is not so extensive or so clearly defined, and 
the black is replaced by more or less deep brown, the 
lightest birds having least white on the flanks, which 
may be entirely dirty brown. The difference probably 
depends on age. Some females have white on the fore- 
part of face, much as in the female Scaup. 
The young bird has a general dirty light brown colour 
with dark-brown wings marked with white as in the 
parents. 
The eyes are yellow in this species ; rich orange yellow 
in old males, paler in females and young, in which latter 
they may even be white or brown. Hence this bird is 
