Tals WHlveeeYe0 POCHARD. 
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Fuligula nyroca, Giildenstédt. 
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Vernacular Names.—[Karchiya, Boorar-mada, (Hindee), VM W. Provinces; 
Lal-bigri, Bhooti-hans, Bezgal; Burnu, Sizdh ; Malac, Mepal Terai; Chiki (or 
Chikit,) Kanat Aurdak, (Turki,), Yarkand ; il 
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dye OMMMON as is this little species, its distribution in 
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India has been as yet by no means satisfactorily 
determined. 
It is common in the Himalayas during the cold 
season, 72 suitable localities, from Gilgit to, at any rate, 
Sikhim,and in Kashmir many are permanent resi- 
dents and breed there. 
In the winter it is more or less common throughout the 
Punjab and Sindh, (where possibly some few may remain to 
breed,) in Kathiawar, Rajputana, the Central India Agency and 
Khandesh, the Central Provinces, the North-Western Provinces 
and Oudh, Bengal west of the Brahmaputra, and Chota Nag- 
pur. It is less common in Cutch, the Nizam’s Territories, the 
Northern Circars, the Deccan, and the Panch Mahals, and is 
very rare in the Southern Konkan. Southwards I have failed to 
trace it ; it is not recorded from Mysore, the Malabar Coast, 
Travancore, Ceylon, or any of the Madras districts south of 
Mysore and the town of Madras, though it must needs straggle 
mto some, if not all, of these localities. Eastward of the Brah- 
maputra, the only record I have of it is of a single speci- 
men procured by Mr Inglis’ in Cachan Mir, Damant™ did 
HoOmenovuce: it from: Manipur, of: Colonel Graham from 
Dibrugarh or Assam generally, and none of Godwin- 
Austen’s or my collectors have apparently met with it in that 
province. In Chittagong, from what Mr. Fasson* says, it pro- 
bably does occur. Blyth records it from Arakan, but gives no 
authority, and I have received no intimation of its having been 
procured there of late years, and no one has reported it from 
either Pegu or Tenasserim. 
* **T cannot speak from my own knowledge, but Mr. Lowis tells me that the 
Ferruginous (or White-eyed) Pochard occurs here. 
** But all wild ducks are rare in Chittagong, and confined to two localities only— 
the Island of Kutubdia, and a series of jhil§ amongst low scrub-grown hills near Fenna 
in Futikcheri. I have been able to visit neither place this season.”—-H. Fasson, 
