THE POUCHARD OUMBIRD. 
Fuligula ferina, Linné. 
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Vernacular Names.—[Boorar nur, Lall-sir, WW. Provinces; Lall muriya, 
Bengal; Cheoon, WNefal ; Thordingnam, Manipur ; Rutubah, Sindh ; Surkh- 
sir, Ghotye, Addu. , J 
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gaa) HE Pochard* occurs as a cold-season migrant to the 
(et, northern two-thirds of the Empire, but it is not 
recorded from Ceylon or Mysore, or any part of the 
Peninsula south of about the 14th Degree North 
Latitude. Indeed the southernmost locality at which 
I know of its having been found (very possibly it 
oS straggles somewhat further south) is Bellary, where 
one was killed on the 6th of December by Col. McMaster. It has 
not been observed in the Southern Konkan, nor has it yet been 
met with in any part of British Burma. 
Moreover in the southern part of the region within which 
it is known to occur, vzz., in the Deccan, the Nizam’s Territories, 
Khandesh, Berar, Gujerat, Cutch and Kathiawar, the southern 
portions of the Central India Agency, the Central Provinces, the 
northern districts of the Madras Presidency and Chota Nag- 
pur it is more or less rare. 
Northwards of these it is in suitable localities common 
alike in hills and plains (except perhaps in Kashmir, whence, 
strange to say, I have never yet received it,) from Sindh and 
Peshawur to Sadiya and Manipur; even from Chittagong it is 
reported by Mr. H. Fasson; only from Tipperah, Sylhet and 
-Cachar no one has noticed it. 
Outside our limits this species has by no means a very 
northern range. It is widely distributed during spring and 
autumn in China, and Prjevalski observed it in the valley of the 
Hoang-ho, and at Lake Koko-Nor: a specimen was obtained 
near Yarkand, and Severtzoff observed it on passage and 
during winter in Western Turkestan. But northwards it does 
not go far. Radde found it at Lake Baikal, but neither he, 
Schrenk nor Middendorff found it elsewhere in Siberia, and 
*Jerdon, and following him most Indian sportsmen, call this the Red-headed 
Pochard. But this is the real original Pochard, (Poker as we call them in Norfolk,) 
and does not require any second qualifying epithet. 
