1^22.] Birds of J hang District. 421 



Netta rufina (Pall.). (2 skins.) 



The Red-crested Pochard is l)y no means common, but 



several were met with in the month of December 1917 and 



1918. 



Nyroca ferina ferina (L.). (4 skins.) 



Flocks of Pochard occur about the jheels from November 



till the end of March. A single bird was seen on the river 



on 7 April, 1919. 



Nyroca nyroca nyroca (L.). (1 skin.) 



A single White-eyed Duck was shot at Nurpur jhcel on 

 19 December, 1918, by Capt. C. B. Ticehurst. 



Nyroca fuligula (L.). (1 skin.) 



Fiiir numbers of Tufted Duck appear on the jheels from 



November until about the middle of March. A pair was 



seen on the river Chenab on 7 April, 1919. 



Mergus albellus L. (2 skins.) 



Hume records (S. F. i. pp. 101, 265) that he saw a party 

 of four Smews on the bank of the river Jhelum in J hang- 

 District on 28 November, 1871, and secured a young male. 

 I have the following records : — 



1917. 24 December. One shot near Pabbarwala. 



1918. 19-20 December. A few at Nurpur jheel, including 



two adults Drakes, of which one was shot by Capt. 

 C. B. Ticehurst. 



1918. 25 December. A small party of seven or eight at 



Sang jheel. 



1919. 19 January. Remains of a Duck brought in by my 



falconer, who said he had killed it with a Falcon at 

 Chund bridge. 

 1919. 22-27 January. An adult Drake, reported by my 

 falconers as about the Massan jheels. 



Phalacrocorax carbo (L.). 



The Cormorant does not breed in Jhang District. Occa- 

 sionally flocks appearon the river from December lo February, 

 and I have seen a flock pass over the Civil lines on 8 October^ 



