84 THE BIRDS OF THE LUCKNOW CIVIL DIVISION. 
then be found pottering about on the mud in company with 
the Common Teal and Spatula clypeata. 
966 dis—Querquedula falcata, Geor. Native 
name—Kala Sinkhur.* 
The Bronze-Capped Teal may be accepted as an occasional 
cold weather visitor, Dr. Bonavia having, I surmise, obtained 
his specimens in Lucknow—vide Stray Ferartuers, Vol IV. 
page 225 ; while two years ago I myself saw two or three in the 
possession of a native fowler, who would not part with them— 
except at a fancy price—saying he meant to take them, with 
a lot of others that he had, to the ex-King of Oudh, who would 
pay him handsomely. 
967.—Fuligula rufina, Pall. Native name—Lal-sir. 
12th December, Female.—Length, 21°75 ; expanse, 36°; wing, 
10°25; tail, 3°50; tarsus, 1°50; bill, from gape, 2°40; weight, 
2 lbs. 54 oz. 
The Red-crested Pochard arrives rather late in the season, 
probably not much before the end of November, but is then 
common enough on all large jhils, generally in parties of a 
dozen or so, though sometimes in vast flocks. One morning 
in December I came across countless numbers on a jhil in the 
Fyzabad district, closely packed, and covering nearly the 
whole surface of the water, with their red heads moving 
independently, while the breeze kept their crests in motion; a 
distant spectator might have mistaken them for a vast expanse 
of beautiful aquatic flowers. 
968.—Fuligula ferina, Lin. Native names—Lal-sir 
and Lal-chouch.t+ 
The Pochard or Dun-bird is nearly as common and as widely 
spread as the last species, and its habits are much the same, 
but I have never seen it in very great flocks. It arrives and 
departs about the same time as F. rujina. 
969.—Fuligula nyroca, Giild. Native name—Burna, 
12th December, Female.— Length, 16-25 ; expanse, 26°; wing, 
7:20; tail, 3°40; tarsus, 1°25; bill, from gape, 2°; weight, 
1 Ib. 23 oz. 
The White-eyed Duck is very common throughout the cold 
weather. Though it may be met with on any jhil, it is never 
found in great numbers, except on those covered with weeds 
* Familiar to the fowlers of Lucknow under that name, 
+? Lal-chonch, or red-bill, a name always applied to F', rwina, but neither applied 
nor applicable to #. ferina,—Hd, 
