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rule the colours of the bill, legs and feet are rather duller and duskier 
in the female than in the male.” (Hume). 
Adult female—Similar to the male but has the black replaced by 
brown, and the definition between the brown breast and the abdomen 
very much blurred and mottled. A bird given me from the Indian 
Museum, Calcutta, has the whole of the lower parts rufescent, and they 
are mottled everywhere with pale brown except on the very centre 
of the abdomen. 
The colours of the soft parts are the same as in the male but general- 
ly duller. 
“ Length 15:2" to 16°75" ; expanse 26°7" to 28°7" ; wing 76" to 8:0"; 
tail from vent 2°6" to 3:0"; tarsus 1:2" to 174"; bill from gape 1°81" to 
9:0"; weight 1b. 5ozs. to 1b. 12028.” (Hume). 
Crest about 1" to nearly 2", rarely more than 1:5", 
A very fine young male in my collection is like the adult, but has the 
breast weakly defined, has no gloss on the head, and has a white face 
extending back fully half an inch from the base of the upper mandible. 
In this bird also the white feathers of the outer secondaries have black 
shafts, and have also a narrow black margin to the outer webs. 
Young in first plumage closely resemble the adult females, but are 
paler brown, especially on the chin and throat, and have ‘no metallic 
green gloss on the innermost secondaries; there are many white 
feathers at the base of the bill. 
“Males in first nuptial dress have white margins to the feathezs of 
the breast, a shorter crest, no green or purple gloss on the head; a 
small white spot on the chin.” (Salvadori). 
“ Males in moulting plumage are intermediate in colour between males 
in first plumage and males in first nuptial plumage.” 
“ Youny in down are dark brown, shading into nearly white on the 
belly.” (Seebohm). 
Salvadori thus defines the habitat of the Tufted Pochard:—“ Paleearc- 
tic Region from the Atlantic to the Pacific ; in the Ethiopean Region it 
extends as far south as Shiré, and apparently breeds in the high lakes 
of Abyssinia, in winter in South China, Japan and India, but not in 
Ceylon or Burma ; accidental in the Malay Archipelago (Philippines 
and Borneo), and in the Polynesian Islands (Marianne Isle and Pelew 
Islands,” ) . 
