WATER FOWL OF INDIA AND ASIA. IOI 
Pochard, for during the cold weather of 1898-99, I got no 
less than six specimens, four femalesand two males, from 
the Calcutta bazaar, whence I had got a male in 1897. 
During the cold weather of 18g99-Igo0, the species was 
quite common in the bazaar ; I saw about a dozen, all 
females with the exception of two, a quite immature and 
a nearly full-plumaged male. Mr. C. M. Inglis also 
procured a male in Tirhut, on January 18th, 1goo ; and 
Mr. M. Mackenzie wrote me that he had got four 
specimens in Chapra, three males anda female. In the 
winter of Igo0-1gor the bird turned up again in fair 
numbers, although the season was a very bad one for 
wildiowl, and I saw only a few Ber’s Pochards. In 
January and February 1902, I noted as many as 
sixteen, but most of those I saw were females. Any 
one getting hold of living specimens of this very 
beautiful and unmistakable Duck should keep them 
alive for some zoological collection. In India, it usually 
appears in very small numbers, but probably occurs 
in flocks when it is common as elsewhere. One of my 
drakes uttered a cry, when frightened, like an ordinary 
duckling. There is a small bony bulb in the windpipe 
of the male, and the female’s note is different, being a 
quack much like that of the female common Wild Duck. 
The Garganey or Blue-winged Teal.” 
Querquedula circia, BLANFORD, Faun. Brit. Ind., 
Binds, Vol, 1V.; p. 440. 
VERNACULAR NAMES :—Chaitwa, Khaira, Patart, 
H. ; Ghang-roib, Giria, Bengal. 
With this species we begin the series of Teals, which 
are all birds of small size. The present one’s only strik- 
* This is the usual name givento this species in India by sportsmen, 
but the veal Blue-winged Teal (Querquedula discors) is a North 
American bird, which has visited Europe a few times and may turn up in 
China. In it the male has the shoulders really blue, like the Shoveller’s 
and the head lavender with a white vertical crescent between bill and eye. 
