WATER FOWL OF INDIA AND ASIA. 3 PS) 
either zv¢erv se or with the original parents for more than 
ten years—a fact to be remembered in dealing with 
doubtful Pochards, which should therefore whenever 
possible be submitted to some authority for identifica- 
tion. 
The Green-headed Pochard or Baer’s 
White-eye. 
Nyroca bert, BLANFORD, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 
Volk TV. p: 464. 
VERNACULAR NaAmeEs.—Borvo Lalbigra, Cachar. 
This Duck is somewhat slighter and less squatty in 
build than Pochards generally, being distinguishable in 
this respect even from its near ally the common White- 
eye. 
The male has a dark glossy green head and neck anda 
glossy deep bay or chocolate breast ; the upper plumage 
and wings are deep glossy brown, with the usual white 
on the quills ; the under surface from the breastis white, 
and this extends halfway up the flanks, but above passes 
eradually into light-brown. The eyes are white, or 
very rarely, yellow. 
The female is like the male, but has a rust-coloured 
patch on each side of the face at the root of the beak ; 
the green of the head is less bright andis mixed slightly 
with rusty about the throat ; the breast 1s lighter, nor is 
its colour so sharply defined from the white belly as in 
the male, and there is less white on the flanks. The 
male in undress assumes the rusty facial patch, and gets 
some white mottling on the breast, and the white appears 
to fade at this time off the flanks of both sexes. 
The eyes of the female are brown, rarely grey or 
whitish. 
