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FUUGULIU^. 



measm-es— Lev ijth 1 7* 75 inches, wing 7*5, tail 2' 8, bill at front 1 '62, great- 

 est width 0"81. The forehead, crown and nape are chocolate brown, with 

 a faint gloss ; a band of white (loreal) at the base of the bill 0"43 wide, 

 tinged with rufous ; chin rufescent white; throat slightly paler than the 

 head ; lower neck and breast pale brown, the feathers edged with 

 pale rufescent or earthy brown ; abdomen satin white ; sides of the 

 vent brownish, with a few white spots ; back, scapulars, tertials, wing- 

 coverts and rump and tipper tail-coverts dark brown, with a slight gloss ; 

 the feathers of the upper back very narrowly edged paler ; primaries 

 dark brown on their outer webs, and tips earthy brown on their inner 

 webs; secondaries white, broadly tipped with dark brown and narrowly 

 edged the same on their outer webs ; tail dark brown; irides yellow. 



Hah. — Sind, Cashmere and Nepaul. 



It was not till I took up the Scaups for examination in connection 

 with this work, that I detected this species ; like Mr. Hume I had it 

 ticketed as mjroca. Mr. Hume's plate of the female of this species, 

 and his description of the specimen.'* in his museum puts its occurence 

 in Sind beyond doubt. The female specimen described was obtained 

 in 1879 at the " One Tree Tank," about six miles north of Kurrachee, 

 on the road to Muggur Peer. I believe now that I had the male also, 

 but just at present it is nowhere to be found. 



Paligula ferina. The Pochard. 



Puligula ferina, Lin. ; P. E. 803 ; Gould. B. Enr. pi. 367. 

 Athya ferina, Jerd. B. Lid. iii. p. 812 ; Murray, Edhh, ZooL, Sjc, Sind, 

 p. 239 ; Hume, Game Birdft Lid. iii. p. 249. — The Pochaed, Dcn- 

 BiRD or Great-headed Wigeon. 



Head and neck rich or very deep chestnut, glossed with purple in 

 some lights ; breast black; back, scapulars and wing-coverts marked 

 with undulating transverse striae of black and white; rump, upper tail- 

 coverts and vent black ; rest of under parts from below the 

 breast covered with delicate zigzag transverse strijB as on the back; 

 primaries dnsky brown, with dusky tips ; secondaries lead or bluish 

 grey, tinged with brown, and slightly tipped with dull white; tail dark 

 brownish ash. , .' 



