THE RED-CREsTED POCHARD. 
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Fuligula rufina, Pallas. 
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Vernacular Names.—[ Lall-chonch, Lall-sir, WV. W. Provinces ; Hero-hans ( oe 
Chobra-hans (9), Bengal ; Doomer(¢), Sunwa(?) Wesal; Rattoba, Sindh 5 
Nool-gool, Kééul ; Kizil-bash aurdak, (Turki) Yérkand ; ] 
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eee ‘HE range of this species in India is very similar to 
». that of the Pochard, but it seems to extend normally 
even less far south than this latter. 
Like this it has not yet been reported from Kash- 
mir ; but as it occurs during the cold season from time 
to time in Kullu, Kumaon and Nepal, it will probably 
2 prove to visit the Wooller and other lakes, apparently 
far better suited to its tastesthan any of the other Himalayan 
‘localities where it has been procured. 
It is more or less common in winter in suitable localities 
throughout the Punjab, the N. W. Provinces (rarer in the 
Doab, more common in Bundelkhand and Rohilkhand,) and 
Oudh, Sindh, Rajputana, the northern portions of the Central 
India Agency, the northern and eastern portions of the Central 
Provinces, Chota Nagpur, Bengal, west of the Brahmaputra, the 
valley of Assam right up to Sadiya, and the Northern Circars, 
northwards at any rate of Chicacole. It is pretty common in 
Northern Gujerat and Berar, rare in Cutch, Kathiawar, Khandesh, 
the Deccan, the southern portions of the Central Provinces, and the 
Nizam’s Dominions. It has not been recorded from the Southern 
Konkan, Mysore or any of the Madras districts south of thislatter. 
In Ceylon, too, it has not, so far as I am aware, ever been 
procured ; but Layard believed that he had seen it there, and not 
improbably a few individuals of this species may occasionally 
stragele,not only to Ceylon, but to all the southern portions of 
the Peninsula. I have no record of its occurrence in Cachar, 
Sylhet, Manipur, Tipperah, Chittagong or any part of British 
Burma; but outside our limits Blyth notes it, I know not 
on what authority, from Bhamo, in Independent Burma. 
The fact is, that in the case of this and the majority of spe- 
cies, the distribution has never been thoroughly worked out. 
This is the first attempt to do this, and will, it is to be hoped, 
lead to a far more complete knowledge of the subject. 
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