WATER FOWL OF INDIA AND ASIA. ay 
tank by native fishermen with nets, and though the 
White-eyes of both species [this and N. ber1| were 
readily captured, I had to abandon the attempt to net 
the others mentioned. It breeds in the Kashmir lakes 
in June, laying nine or ten buff-coloured eggs in a nest 
made of dry rushes placed amid thick reeds, etc., close 
to the water. It is said to be very poor eating, but 
I have found it palatable enough ; it was commonly 
eaten in Calcuttain my time. 
There are a number of other Asiatic diving-ducks, which, 
being mostly marine, except in the breeding-season, are not 
likely to occur in India, but may be expected to turn up on the 
Chinese Coast. They all present the typical diving-duck 
structure in a high degree of development, are mainly animal 
feeders, and none are very gcod to eat. 
The Long-tailed Duck. 
Harelda glacialis, SALVADORI, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, 
Mol Se xVilp 389- 
This is a rather small, but very distinct-looking Duck, witha 
very short bill, shorter than the shank, and the tail, in the male, 
with two long centre-feathers like the Pintail drake’s ; this 
peculiar type of tail only occurs in these two very dissimilar 
Ducks. The Long-tailed drake, however, retains his long tail- 
feathers always, even when in undress plumage. 
‘In his full plumage the male is mostly white, but has most 
of the wings, back, lower breast, and long centre-tail-feathers 
black ; the head is greyish, and there is a “brown patch on the 
sides of the neck. The male in summer undress is mainly black, 
with the under-parts white, the back variegated by chestnut 
edgings to the feathers, and the face smoky grey. 
The bill is slate-colour with a broad band of salmon-colour, the 
jegs grey, and the eyes reddish-brown. 
The female has an ordinary short tail, and is dull blackish 
above, with lighter edgings on the shoulders, and white below ; 
she also has the sides of the head dirty white, and the throat 
and neck brown. 
The male is about twenty-two inches long, the long centre- 
 tail-feathers accounting for eight, with a bill just over the inch, 
and shank about an inch and-a-half; the closed wing is nine 
