ERISMATURA. 703 



" Male. The bill is black ; the iris yellow; the feet orange yellow with 

 the webs dusky ; the claws brownish black. 



"Length. To end of tail 19 inches ; extent of wings 32; wing from flexure 

 9 ; tail 4 ; bill along the edge 1*42 ; tarsus 1*42. 



"Female. The female is much smaller, and has the bill less stout; the 

 feathers of the head less elongated, and less glossy, as are the scapulars and 

 the feathers of the sides; the bill is light brown, yellowish on the 

 ridge towards the end, with the upper unguis dusky ; the lower yellowish 

 brown ; the tarsi and toes are of a dingy yellowish brown ; the inter-digital 

 membranes dusky ; the claws brown ; the head and upper neck are umber 

 brown ; the lower neck all round dull ash grey, the feathers terminally edged 

 with paler ; the lower parts are white, but the sides of the body and rump 

 with part of the abdomen, are grey ; the axillary and lower wing covert 

 brownish grey ; the back and scapulars are deep ash grey, but on the hind 

 part of back that colour shades into black ; the tail dark brown, tinged with 

 grey ; the smaller wing coverts are deep grey, many of them tipped with pale 

 grey ; the primaries, their coverts, four outer secondaries, and live inner, with 

 their coverts, brownish black ; the seven other secondaries pure white, as are 

 their coverts, unless at the base. 



" Length. -To end of tail 16 inches ; expanse 28 ; wing 8-25 ; tail 3-25 ; bill 

 along the ridge 1-25; tarsus 1-25." (MacGtlltvray, J5r. B. ex Str. F. vii. 

 p. 441.) 



ffab.S'md, Lucknow (Bonavia), North Afghanistan. 



This species has not to my knowledge been obtained in Sind during the 

 last thirteen years. " Sir A. Burnes obtained a specimen on the Indus, which. 

 is figured among his drawings in the possession of the Asiatic Society." 



Gen. Erismatura. 



Tail of 1 8, stiff feathers, bare at the tips, and the webs much disunited. 

 1405. Erismatura leucocephala (Scop.), Hume, Game Birds 



Ind. iii. pp. 290, 436. The STIFF-TAILED WHITE-FACED DUCK. 



Crown black ; forehead, sides of the head, including the space above the eye, 

 chin and nape pure white ; below this white the neck is black with a few buffy 

 brown dots on the forepart ; lower neck to the forepart of the back except in 

 the centre, chestnut red, which extends to the f oreneck and upper breast, where 

 it is delicately marked with buffy white ; back and scapulars ochreous or 

 reddish buff ; rump darker, brownish or finely vermiculated with blackish ; 

 lower rump and upper tail coverts chestnut red ; quills greyish black, the 

 secondaries externally and the larger wing coverts greyish buff, vermiculated 

 with blackish grey ; lesser coverts dull ashy, but slightly vermiculated ; tail 

 long and stiff and blackish in colour, under parts buffy white, obscurely 



