. The birds of South Africa. Birds. ANSEEES NYEOCA 147 but not pointed; wings rounded, the first and second primaries, which are the longest, hardly exceeding the longest secondaries ; no speculum ; tail of fourteen feathers short and graduated; the feathers normal and rounded at the tips ; tarsus very short, less than the inner toe ; hind toe well developed and with a broad lobe posteriorly. This Genus contains some eight species of Diving Ducks commonly known as Pochards, distributed all over the world. Only one species is found within our limits, though two, the common Pochard (N. ferina) a
. The birds of South Africa. Birds. ANSEEES NYEOCA 147 but not pointed; wings rounded, the first and second primaries, which are the longest, hardly exceeding the longest secondaries ; no speculum ; tail of fourteen feathers short and graduated; the feathers normal and rounded at the tips ; tarsus very short, less than the inner toe ; hind toe well developed and with a broad lobe posteriorly. This Genus contains some eight species of Diving Ducks commonly known as Pochards, distributed all over the world. Only one species is found within our limits, though two, the common Pochard (N. ferina) and the White-eye {N. africana), both northern species, range as far south as Abyssinia in Fig. 43.—Left foot of Nyroca erythrophthalma. x ^ 626. Nyroca erythrophthalma. South African Pochard. Anas capensis (nee Gmel.) Lesson, Tr. iVOrn. p. 632 (1831). Anas erythrophthalma, Wied, Beitr. iv, p. 929 (1832). Fuligula capensis, Smith, Cat. S. A. Mas. p. 36 (1837) ; P. L. Sclater, P. Z. 8. 1880, p. 526. Nyroca brunnea, Eyton, Mon. Anat. p. 161, pi. 23 (1838); Strickland and Sclater, Contrib. Ornith. 1852, p. 160; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 355 (1867); Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 266 ; Bryden, Gun and Camera, p. 404 (1893); id. Nat. and Sport, p. 43 (1897); Sahadori, Cat. B. M. xxvii, p. 351 (1895); Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 173 (1896). Fuligula45runnea, Gurney, Ibis, 1864, p. 355 [Natal]. Aythya capensis, Gurney, m Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 842 (1872) ; Butler, Feilden and Beid, Zool. 1882, p. 428 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's - B. S, Afr. p. 760 (1884) ; Nicolls and Eglinton, Sports. S. A. p. 129 ( Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stark, Arthur Cowell, d. 1899; Sclater, William Lutley, 1863-1944; Sclater, William Lutley, 1863-1944. Fauna of South Africa. London, R. H. Porter
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