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white, with numerous fine undulating black lines; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts black ; tail dark ashy -brown ; primaries deep , 

 dusky-brown ; secondaries bluish-grey ; breast black ; abdomen 

 whitish, faintly undulated like the back, the lines becoming 

 darker towards the vent ; under tail-coverts black. 



The female has the crown, nape, and sides of the neck, and .]. 

 the upper part of the back, reddish-brown ; the back as in the ' 

 male, but the lines less distinct ; throat and forepart of the 

 neck white, mixed with reddish ; breast reddish-brown, mottled 

 with white ; the middle of the abdomen greyish-white. 



The Pochard or Dun-bird is common in Sind during the cold 

 weather ; it is not uncommon in Guzerat and Rajputana, but 

 is less so in the Deccan. When in good condition the Pochard 

 is not bad eating ; if not disturbed much, they are by no means 

 shy, but when often fired at they soon become wary. 



Fuligula nyroca, Guld. 



969. Aythya nyroca, Guld. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. Ill, 

 p. 813 ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 30 ; Deccan, 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 439 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology 

 of Sind, p. 301 ; Game Birds of India, Vol. Ill, p. 263 ; Nyroca 

 ferruginea, Gmel. ; Svvinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 

 1885, p. 138. 



THE WHITE-EYED POCHARD. 



Length, 16 to 17 ; expanse, 24 to 27*5 ; wing, 675 to 7'5 ; tail, 

 3 to 3'5 ; tarsus, 1 to 1*25 ; bill from gape, 1*9 to 2*1 ; weight 

 lA.to l T 9 glbs. _ 



Bill bluish ; irides white ; legs grey. 



Male, head and neck deep ferruginous, with a narrow collar of 

 blackish -brown on the lower part of the neck ; back, scapulars and 

 wing-coverts, dusky brown, somewhat glossed with green and 

 purple, and the whole finely powdered with pale reddish-brown ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail dusky-brown, with a dash of ferrugi- 

 nous ; primaries dusky ; speculum white, edged with black in the 

 lo.wer part ; chin whitish ; lower part of the neck and breast 

 bright ferruginous ; abdomen and under %til-coverts pure-white ; 

 the lower portion and vent blackish grey. 



The female differs from the male in the head and neck being 

 brown, the feathers edged with ferruginous ; the upper parts are 

 glossy umber brown, the feathers edged with pale brown ; the 

 irides are less pure white, and the bill and feet are dusky-grey ; 

 otherwise as in the male. The White-eyed Pochard occurs more 

 or less abundantly throughout the region. 



It is by no means wary, but is not sought after by sportsmen, 

 as it is at the best of times but indifferent eating. 



Fuligula marila, Lin. 



970. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 814; Murray's 



