FULIGULA. 697 



Hab. Punjab and N.-W. Provinces. As yet only recorded from near 

 Lucknow and Delhi, also at Sultanpoor. The specimen from the Calcutta 

 market must have been obtained from some part of the Coast. 



Querquedula gibberifrons is a species only as yet known from South Anda- 

 mans, where it is a permanent resident* Hume has excellent figures of both 

 male and female in his Game Birds. It is a very peculiarly coloured species, 

 the whole upper and lower surface being a sort of a pale rusty ferruginous, 

 each feather with a mesial crescentic or sub^crescentic patch of brown towards 

 the tips, which are slightly paler rusty ferruginous than the bases ; orbital ring 

 white ; cheeks and throat white ; secondary greater coverts, the outer webs of 

 a few secondaries and their tips white ; rest of outer webs of secondaries velvetty 

 black, with a brilliant green longitudinal band* 



Sub-Family, FULIGULIN^E, Sw. GIVING DUCKS. 



Bill elevated at base, flat and broad towards the tip; nail strong, broad and 

 horny ; tarsi short, rather compressed ; toes long, webbed to the end ; hind 

 toe short ; tail short and rounded. 



Gen. Fuligula, Steph.; Branta, oie.; Gray, Gen. B. iii p. 620. 



Bill nearly as long as the head, moderately wide, tip depressed ; nail large ; 

 lamella? distant; wings moderate, 1st quill longest* 



1399, Fuligula rufina, Pall., Zoogr. t. 79; &odd. Tab. P. E. 928; 



Gould, B. Eur. pi. 369; Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p, 8n; Sir. F. iv. p, 2OI J 

 Murray, Hdbk., ZooL, fyc. Sind, p. 238 ; Hume, Game. Birds Ind. iii. 

 p, 253* (Rattoba, Sind; Lall-seeree, Punjab.) The RED-CRESTED POCHARD. 



Male. Crown, of the head, with an elongated crest of a silky texture and 

 dull yellow colour ; head on the sides, cheeks, chin and throat rich chestnut, 

 with a tinge of rose red or reddish bay ; nape and a line continued down the 

 back of the neck black ; lower neck, breast, sides of the breast and abdomen 

 black, in some specimens the abdomen is a chocolate brown; flanks white; 

 back pale brown, or yellowish brown ; the scapulars with a fulvous tinge ; 

 end of the wing and a large spot on the sides of the back white ; primaries 

 brown on their outer webs and at their tips, white on their inner webs ; 

 secondaries white, with sub-terminal dark tips; tertiaries pale brown ; rump 

 and upper tail coverts nearly black ; tail dark brown ; bill bright vermilion ; 

 legs and feet vermilion or reddish orange ; irides reddish brown. 



Length. 20*5 to 22 inches ; wing IO to 10*75 ; tail 3'O to 4'O j bill 2-3 

 to 2-5. 



Females are not much smaller, and average from 2o to 21 inches. Fore- 

 head and crown dark brown; the neck on the back and nape slightly paler; 

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