. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . abdomen satin white ;sides of the vent brownish, with a few w^hite spots; back, scapulars, tertials,wing coverts and rump and upper tail coverts dark brown, with a slight gloss ;the feathers of the upper back very narrowly edged paler; primaries darkbrown on their outer webs and tips, earthy brown on their inner webs;secondaries white, broadly tipped with dark brown and narrowly edged thesame on their outer webs ; tail dark brown ; irides yellow. Hab.—Sind, C
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . abdomen satin white ;sides of the vent brownish, with a few w^hite spots; back, scapulars, tertials,wing coverts and rump and upper tail coverts dark brown, with a slight gloss ;the feathers of the upper back very narrowly edged paler; primaries darkbrown on their outer webs and tips, earthy brown on their inner webs;secondaries white, broadly tipped with dark brown and narrowly edged thesame on their outer webs ; tail dark brown ; irides yellow. Hab.—Sind, Cashmere and Nepaul. It was not till I took up the Scaups for examination in connection with thiswork, that I detected this species ; like Mr. Hume I had it ticketed as Humes plate of the female of this species, and his description of thespecimens in his museum puts its occurrence in Sind beyond doubt. Thefemale specimen described was obtained in 1879 at the One Tree Tank,about six miles north of Kurrachee, on the road to Muggur Peer. I believenow that I had the male also, but just at present it is nowhere to be Fuligula ferina. The Pochard. 238. Fuligula ferina {Linn), Bodd. Tab. p. E. 803 ; Gould, pi. 367. Athya ferina, Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 812 ; Murray, Hdbk., ZooL,8fc., Sind, p. 239; ui., Vert. ZooL, Sind, p. 307; L/ume, Game Birds Ind. 249; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 700, No. 1402.—The Pochard,Dun-Bird or Great-headed Wigeon. Head and neck rich or very deep chestnut, glossed with purple in somelights ; breast black ; back, scapulars and wing coverts marked with undulatingtransverse striae of black and white; rump, upper tail coverts and vent black ;rest of under parts from below the breast covered with delicate zigzag trans-verse striae as on the back; primaries dusky brown, with dusky tips; secon- 200 ANATID^. daries leaden or bluish grey, tinged with brown, and slightly tipped with dullwhite ; tail dark brownish ash. The female
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