206 ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 
Fuligula nyroca” (Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 
Edited by the Hon. Secs. January to December, 1896). 
“This duck is a very near ally of Myroca ferruginea, but 
is distinguished by both sexes having the head and neck black, 
glossed with green in the male, but brownish and with very 
little gloss in the female, in which sex also the lores are 
rufous-brown. ‘The basal portion of the primaries, too, in the 
present species is light greyish-brown, not white. In other 
respects the two species are similar. There is the same white 
speculum on the secondaries, and the same sharp division be- 
tween the chestnut breast and white abdomen in the male, 
whilst the two pass into each other in the female ‘ Bill bluish, 
the base and nail black ; irides white or pale yellow ; feet lead- 
grey’ (David). Length 18; tail 2.4; wing 8°25; tarsus 13; 
bill from gape 2. Distribution Eastern Siberia, China, and 
Japan. Although specimens appear to have been obtained in 
Bengal by Duvancel, the occurrence of this Pochard in India 
had been completely overlooked until Mr. Frank Finn, in 
February, 1896, obtained several specimens in the Calcutta 
Bazaar, and identified them. He then, on examining the 
specimens of Aizligula nyroca, collected by Mr. Blyth, found 
that one of them, which had been in the Asiatic Society’s 
Museum since 1842, was a female of Wyroca baert. I learn 
from Mr. Finn that in the present year (1897) this Duck has 
again been obtained commonly in Calcutta, so it is probable 
that this species has hitherto been confounded with the nearly- 
allied Vyroca ferruginea” (Blandford’s Fauna of British India, 
vol. iv.) 
Mr. Frank Finn describes this bird as follows :— 
“The male has a dark glossy-green head and neck and a glossy deep 
bay or chocolate breast ; the upper plumage and wings are deep glossy- 
brown, with the usual white on the quills ; the under surface from the breast 
is white, and this extends half way up the flanks, but above passes gradually 
into light brown. The eyes are white or (very rarely) yellow. 
