THE POCHARDS. 
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II- THE WHITE-EYED POCHARD. NYROCA NYROCA. 
nyrocii, Giild. N. Comm. Petrop. xiv. pt. i. p. 403 (1769). 
'“‘‘gula nyroca, Macg. Br. B. v. p. 113 (1852); Seeb. Br. B. 
'*'• P- 571 (1885); Saunders, cd. Yarr. Br. B. iv. p. 418 
(1885) ; id. Man. Br. B. p. 433 (1859); Lilford, Col. Fig. 
_ Br. B. part xiv. (1890). 
Nyroca ferm^ ^inea (Cm.), Dresser, B. Eur. vi. p. 581, pi. 438 
(1872) ; B. O. U. List Br. B. p. 130 (1883). 
y^oca a/riaifin, Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 345 (1895.) 
^ Adult Male. — General colour above dusky-brown with an 
gloss, with scarcely perceptible vermiculations of 
bh 1?"^ orown ; the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 
brn^^ ’ brown, faintly vermiculated with lighter 
bast" ' a' Sweater series blacker, with a slight green gloss; 
n'ali m ‘T'ld primary coverts blackish ; primaries exter- 
the ^ ^l^^l^i^hi Its well as at the ends of the inner webs ; 
oy. of the inner web pure white, which extends on to the 
^ er web of the inner primaries ; the secondaries white, with 
blao^^^- band at the ends, the innermost secondaries 
bear! oily green gloss; tail bronzy-black; crown of 
face crested and bright chestnut, as also the sides of 
on t’h mantle, throat, and upper breast ; 
coii„"® ^b'n a white spot ; round the lower throat a blackish 
of joins on the hind-neck and extends to the middle 
breast which is dusky-brown washed with rufous ; lower 
ing j abdomen white ; sides of the body chestnut, inclin- 
white° • tail-coverts 
Under ^ ’ axillaries and 
bluish white; quill-lining also whitish ; “bill black, 
toes si leaden, often browner below ; legs and 
S''cenish^T-'^°'®’’’b or dusky-grey ; the tarsi often with a 
grevicR^ bnge; the claws and webs dusky-black ; iris white or 
uien Total length, 16-5 inches; cul- 
’ ; "ung, 7-4 ; tail, 2-3; tarsus, 1-25. 
feathers l-ighter brown than the male above, the 
Pearancp"'^^ sandy-buff margins, producing a mottled ap- 
^aik checf as in the male; the crown of the head 
clearer nh ’^^^'biown, the sides of the face and throat a little 
estnut with a white chin-spot; the fore-neck and 
