0MB, NATATOMEK 



FAM. ANATID^. 



GENUS ANAS. 



PLATE XXXIV. 



ANAS CAUYOPHYLLACEA. 



PINK HEADED DUCK. 



Syn.— -A. Caryophyllacea, Latham Ind. Orn. — Le Millouin d cou rose. — Lesson, Traite^ 



No. 40. 



I inserted this Duck in my Catalogue of Indian Birds on tlie authority of some 

 Shikarees at Jalnah, who described it accurately as being a rare visitant to that neighbour- 

 hood. Lesson inserts it in his ' Traite' as existing in the Paris Museum, though Swainson* 

 says he had never heard of a specimen dead or alive in England. 



Since my Catalogue was published I have obtained two specimens, one from the 

 Nellore district, and the other (in imperfect plumage) in the Madras Market. It must 

 however be considered a very rare kind, even in the North of India, as Mr. Blyth has 

 but seldom procured it. Latham says that it is common in Oude, and lives generally in 

 pairs, is often kept tame, and becomes tolerably familiar. I should be glad if any 

 Sportsmen would communicate to me instances of its occurrence here. 



I add a description — head, cheeks, sides, and hind neck, pale pink or rose colour ; 

 the rest of the plumage of a g-lossy reddish brown, somewhat paler beneath ; speculum 

 and inner webs of quills pale reddish fawn; edge of the wing white ; some of the tertiaries 

 lengthened and glossy green — bill red — legs leaden. 



Length about 24 inches— Wing lOi— Tail 4— Tarsus 1^"^— Bill at gape 2i. 



* Animals in Menageries, p. 277. 



