FULIGULIN^E. 



Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 305 ; Game Birds of India, 



Vol. III. p. 271, 



THE SCAUP POCHARD. 



Length, 18 to 20 ; expanse, 28 to 32 ; wing, 8 to 9 ; tail, 

 2-5 to 275 ; tarsus, T33 to T42 ; bill at front, T6 to 1-9. 



Bill, j, bluish, beneath dusky, black at tip; 9, deep grey; 

 hides brilliant yellow ; legs bluish-ashy ; webs dusky. 



Male, head and neck, black, glossed with green ; top of the back 

 and scapulars whitish, with zigzag black lines ; lower back and 

 upper tail-coverts black ; tail brown ; wing-coverts black, marbled 

 with ashy ; speculum white ; quills brown ; lower neck and breast 

 deep black ; abdomen and sides pure white, with brown zigzag 

 markings on the lower portion ; under tail-coverts black. 



The female has the head and neck blackish brown, with a large 

 white space round the eye ; back, scapulars, and wings, with 

 brown and white zigzag markings ; lower back and upper tail- 

 coverts smoky black ; lower neck and breast deep brown ; abdo- 

 men white, marked with brown posteriorly. 



The Scaup Pochard occurs in Sind. It is usually passed over as 

 a White-eye. 



Fuligula cristata, Ray. 



971. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 815 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 31 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 

 IX, p. 438 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 304 ; 

 Game Birds of India, Vol. Ill, p. 277 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, 

 Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 138. 



THE CRESTED POCHARD. 



Length, 15'2 to 17'2 ; expanse, 26 7 to 30'3 ; wing, 7'6 to 8-5 ; 

 tail, 2'5 to 325 ; tarsus, J/2 to 1/4; bill from gape, 1'81 to 2 ; 

 weight, l T 5 u to 2J Ibs. 



Bill dark bluish-grey, black at tip ; hides golden yellow ; legs 

 leaden ; webs dusky. 



Head and jieck. including the long pendent, silky crest, glossy 

 blacTTwith green and purple reflections ; back, wings, and rump, 

 Black^ slightly glossed and powdered witfi greyish white ; breast 

 "glossy black ^ rest of the lower parts pure white ; the vent black ; 

 speculum7T6?medl)y the secondaries, wHIte, with a narrow green- 

 ish-black edge; tertials glossy-green. 



The female has the colors somewhat duller and more brown ; 

 the crest not so long ; speculum smaller ; and the lower parts 

 spotted with brown. 



The young want the crest, and have the base of the bill and 

 region of the eyes varied with white. 



The Tufted Pochard is more or less common throughout the 

 whole region, less in Sind, perhaps, than elsewhere. It is quite 

 . \abundant in Central India. It is not a particularly good bird 

 v V* for the table, but at times it is eatable. 



