BAERS POCHARD 



NYROCA BAERI (Radde) 

 (Plate 60) 

 Synonymy 

 Anas leucophthalmos Kittlitz (nee Borkhausen), Oken's Isis, p. 529, 1829. 

 Anas (Fuligula) baeri Radde, Reise Sud O.-Siberia, vol. 2, p. 376, pi. 15, 1863. 

 Aythya ferina Swinhoe (errorim), Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 419, 1871. 

 Fulix baeri Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 419, 1871. 

 Fulix cristata G. R. Gray (in part), Hand-list Birds, vol. 3, p. 86, 1871. 

 Fuligula nyroca David (nee Giildenstadt), Nouv. Arch. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, 



Bull. 7, cat. no. 354, 1871. 

 Fuligula baeri Dybowski, Journ. f. Ornith., vol. 22, p. 337, 1874. 

 Fulix nyroca David and Oustalet (nee Giildenstadt), Oiseaux de la Chine, p. 507, 



1877. 

 Nyroca ferruginea Blakiston and Pryer (nee Gmelin), Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan, vol. 



10, no. 1, p. 99, 1882. 

 Fuligula baueri Tristram (errorim), Cat. Coll. Birds, p. 48, 1889. 

 Nyroca baeri Salvadori, Cat. Birds British Mus., vol. 27, p. 344, 1895. 



Vernaculab Names 



English: Baer's White-eyed Duck, Baer's Pochard or Duck, Eastern White-eyed 



Duck, Siberian White-eye, Green-headed Pochard. 

 German: Baers Ente, Baers Moorente. 

 French: Fuligule de Baer. 

 Japanese: Akahajiro, Hisuigamo. 

 Cachar: Boro lalbigar. 



DESCRIPTION 



Adult Male : Head and neck dark metallic green except on the lower neck where the color becomes a 

 dead black. There is a small white spot on the chin. The mantle is black down the middle, but on 

 the sides it is ruddy chestnut like the breast. Scapulars very dark brown, indistinctly speckled with 

 very fine brown dots. Back, rump, upper tail-coverts and tail, black. Breast ruddy chestnut running 

 into brown on the sides and flanks. Abdomen pure white sharply contrasted with the breast color, ex- 

 cept the lower part which shades into a brownish color. Under tail-coverts white; outer wing-coverts 

 black; speculum white, but framed posteriorly by a black band formed by the tips of the secondaries. 

 Primaries dark brown on the outer web and tip, pearl gray on the inner web. Tertials black, mar- 

 ginal under wing-coverts dark brown, remainder of under wing-coverts white like the axillars. 



Iris white; occasionally yellowish or pale yellow. Bill bluish to slate blue with the base and the nail 

 black, the blue color lighter toward the tip. Feet and legs lead-gray with the joints and webs darker. 



Wing 210-223 mm.; bill 49; tarsus 37. 



