ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 205 
Female.—Head, neck, and breast reddish-brown ; under 
parts white ; bill and legs brown; eye red. 
Young.—No information. 
Egg.—“ Pale blue, with olivaceous tint; shell smooth, 
thin, and brittle ; nearly oval.” (E. A. Samuel’s “ Birds of North 
America.”) 
BAER’S DUCK; EASTERN WHITE-EYED DUCK. 
(Wyroca baert. Fuligula baeri). 
This bird, until lately unknown to our collections, is 
stated by Dr. Patten to have been shot on Tring reservoir, on 
November sth, 1901, its skin being exhibited by the Honorable 
N. C. Rothschild, at a meeting of the British Ornithologists’ 
Club, November zoth, 1901. The chronicler holds the opinion 
that this was a genuine wild specimen. 
“On June 24th, 1906, a Baer’s Duck was received 
from Mr. Frank Finn, F.Z.S. (of the Indian Museum, Calcutta), 
and presented by him along with other birds to the Zoo- 
logical Society’s Collection. This is the first example of this 
eastern Asiatic Duck which has recently been ascertained to 
occur in India, that has reached us. Mr. Frank Finn states 
that he obtained eight specimens of Baer’s Pochard (Fudigula 
baert) in the Calcutta Bazaar, on the 24th to 27th 
February last. Three are males, five are females, and in 
addition there are two living males in the Zoological Gardens at 
Alipore, where the remaining female has apparently recently 
died. This species is to be found in Eastern Siberia (whence 
Radde described it), China and Japan. The birds will be 
added to the Museum Collection, where there is already a 
specimen apparently of this form, numbered 1789 D in Blyth’s 
Catalogue, but referred to the Common and nearly allied species 
