£64 Contribubiions to the Ornithology of India, 8fe. 



and with two or more narrow^ widely-separated^ transverse browit 

 bars. The tibial plumes browner/ and with numerous narrow 

 closely set, but ill-marked, transverse brown bars ; the abdomen 

 more or less obsoletely mottled with very pale grey brown, which 

 on lifting- the feathers is found to arise from more or less faint, 

 irregular, transverse, subterminal, brownish bars. 



The barrings above described are very much more marked 

 in some specimens than in others, in some in fact on the abdo- 

 men they are almost entirely obsolete, and can hardly be traced. 



The upper back, greyish brown, the feathers with a subterminal 

 richer brown bar ; the scapulars brown, with a yellowish white 

 terminal spot, and of a much richer brown, the longer ones especi- 

 ally, just above the spot; the tertiaries and secondary greater 

 coverts are greyish brown, the former obsoletely barred paler ; the 

 secondaries are pale grey ; the primaries, their greater coverts, and 

 the winglet, pale slaty, the primaries with a silver- grey tinge 

 on the outer webs towards the tips ; the inner webs, pale grey 

 brown, except towards the tips where they are much darker and 

 where the shafts also are conspicuously darker. The middle back, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts, the same grey brown as the upper 

 part of the back ; the feathers of the middle back narrowly and 

 obscurely tipped with yellowish white, those of the rump and 

 upper tail coverts more broadly and conspicuously so, and with 

 a subterminal dark brown spot ; the longest of the upper tail 

 coverts, are very broadly and conspicuously so tipped, and have 

 a subterminal dark band. The tail feathers, pale grey brown, 

 broadly tipped, and narrowly margined with yellowish white; 

 the two central tail feathers darker on the inner webs and dark 

 shafted, and the lateral tail feathers paling as they recede from 

 the centre. 



The female is similar, but smaller, with the eye patch and 

 generally all the markings and tints duller and less conspicuous. 



967.— Fuligula rufina, Fall 



The red-crested pochard was but seldom seen on any of the 

 large rivers, neither did I observe it in any of the smaller inland 

 pieces of water ; but at the Muncher lake and some few others 

 of the larger broads it occurred in considerable flocks. 



968.— Aythya ferina, L. 



I only met with this duck on some of the broads, but where 

 it did occui', it occurred in incredible numbers; at the 

 Madho jheel it out-numbered all the rest of the water-fowl put 

 together, tens of thousands were congregated together. It was 

 generally in lakes possessing a considerable breadth of open 



