404? ANATIX/E. 



brown edgings ; a dark brown line from the upper mandible 

 through the eye ending in a point ; supercilium, whole face, and 

 neck dingy fulvous with small brown streaks, enlarging on the 

 lower neck ; upper plumage, including the lesser and median 

 wing-coverts and scapulars, hair-brown ; greater-coverts white, 

 edged with deep black ; primaries brown ; secondaries, forming a 

 conspicuous speculum, glossy green, with a black tip, narrowly 

 edged with white on the innermost feathers ; tertiaries white 

 externally (forming a continuous line with the white coverts), 

 hair-brown internally ; lower back and rump black ; tail deep 

 brown ; beneath, from the breast, pale earthy or dingy-white, with 

 numerous brown spots, increasing in size on the abdomen and 

 flanks ; vent and under tail-coverts deep blackish-brown. 



The Grey Duck is a more or less tolerably common permanent 

 resident throughout the district. It is a very good eating bird, 

 almost when in good condition rivalling the Mallard in flavor 

 and delicacy. It breeds towards the close of the rains, making a 

 nest amongst sedges and rushes. The eggs, six or seven in number, 

 are broad ovals, white or greyish- white in color, measuring 2' 16 

 inches in length by about l'7l in breadth. 



Anas (Rhodonessa) caryophyllacea, Latham. 



960. Jerdon's Birds of India Vol. II, p. 800 ; Butler, Deccan ; 



Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 437 ; Game Birds of India, Vol. 



Ill, p. 173 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, 



p. 137. 



THE PINK-HEADED DUCK. 



Length, 24 ; wing, 1075 ; tail, 4*75 ; expanse, 34'5 ; bill at 

 front, 2-37 ; weight, 2 Ibs. 



Bill reddish-white, rosy at base, and faintly bluish at tip ; irides 

 deep orange-red ; legs and feet dark slate or blackish. 



Male, with the head, cheeks, sides of neck, and hind-neck, 

 beautiful pale rosy-pink, with, in the breeding season, a small 

 tuft of still brighter rosy on the top of the head ; the rest of the 

 plumage fine glossy dark chocolate-brown, paler and less glossed 

 beneath ; speculum and the inner webs of many of the quills 

 pale reddish-fawn or dull salmon color ; edge of the wing white ; 

 uppermost tertiaries rich glossy green ; lower wing-coverts and 

 quills beneath pale dull pink color, with a satiny lustre. 



The female has the pink of the head somewhat more dull and 

 pale, and the vertex has a brownish spot in some, which is con- 

 tinued faintly down the back of the neck. 



Young birds have the head and neck pale vinous-isabella color, 

 with the top of the head, nape, and hind-neck, brown ; the 

 whole plumage lighter brown, in some mixed with whitish 

 beneath. 



Colonel Swinhoe found the Pink-headed Duck very plentiful at 

 the Depalpore Lake near Mhow. It does not appear to have been 

 recorded from elsewhere within our limits. 



