208 BLACK AND WHITE POCHARD. 



THIS inelegant bird is figured by Dr. Latham in 

 the first Supplement to his Synopsis, and is thus de- 

 scribed : " Size of the Black-billed Whistling Duck 

 (Anas arborea): length twenty-one inches : beak two 

 inches and a half in length, a trifle bent at the point : 

 colour of that, the whole of the head, and half the 

 neck a fine pink ; and as far as that colour extends 

 the feathers are short and downy : irides red : the 

 lower part of the neck and the rest of the plumage 

 a dusky deep chocolate-brown, except a kind of spe- 

 culum, formed of three or four of the quills, which 

 are a pale red, or rust-colour : some of the lower 

 wing-coverts are curved downwards at the ends, as 

 in the male Western Duck : the tail is two inches in 

 length, and the wings reach near one-third thereon : 

 the legs are blue-grey, and rather long. The female 

 scarce differs from the male." 



Inhabits various parts of India : is seldom seen in 

 flocks, for the most part only two being found to- 

 gether : it is often kept tame. 



BLACK AND WHITE POCHARD. 



(Fuligula bicolor.) 



Fu. vertice rufo, nigro Jhsciato, collare albido , pectore ventreque 

 rufis, humeris scapularibusque nigricantibus rujb-striatis t dorso, 

 remigibus, rectricibusque nigris. 



Pochard with the crown red, banded with black, the collar whitish, 

 the breast and belly red, the shoulders and scapulars dusky, 

 striped with rufous, the back, quills, and tail-feathers black. 



