Fuligula ferina, Limé.
TQinaCttlar Names.—(Boorar nttr, Lall-sir. N. W. Provinces; Lall muriya,
Bengal; Cheoon, Nepal; Tnqrdingnain, Manipur; ltutubak, Sf'iiti/i; Surkhsir,
Ghotye, Kabul. \
j£2pK2j?HE Pochard* occurs as a cold-season migrant to the
sJKpslE northern two-thirds of the Empire, but it is not
^VflSy^1 recorded from Ceylon or Mysore, or any part of the
F?J*%3* Peninsula south of about the 14th Degree North
ly^gtfi Latitude. Indeed the southernmost locality at which
IT; ^ ' know of its having been found (very possibly it
"SK*1 straggles somewhat further south) is Bellary, where
one was killed on the 6th of December by Col. McMaster. It has
not been observed in the Southern Konkan, nor has it yet been
met with in any part of British Burma.
Moreover in the southern part of the region within which
It is known to occur, vis., in the Deccan, the Nizam's Territories,
Khandesh, Berar, Gujcrat, Cutch and Kathiawar, the southern
portions of the Central India Agency, the Central Provinces, the
northern districts of the Madras Presidency and Chota Nagpur
it is more or less rare.
Northwards of these it is in suitable localities common
alike in hills and plains (except perhaps in Kashmir, whence,
strange to say, I have never yet received it,) from Sindh and
Peshawur to Sadiya and Manipur; even from Chittagong it is
reported by Mr. H. Fasson ; only from Tipperah, Sylhet and
Cachar no one has noticed it.
Outside our limits this species has by no means a very
northern range. It is widely distributed during spring and
autumn in China, and Prjevalski observed it in the valley of the
Hoang-ho, and at Lake Koko-Nor: a specimen was obtained
near Yarkand, and Severtzoff observed it on passage and
during winter in Western Turkestan. But northwards it does
not go far. Radde found it at Lake Baikal, but neither he,
Schrenk nor Middendorff found it elsewhere in Siberia, and
*Jerdon, and following him most Indian sportsmen, call this the Red-headed
Pochard. But this is the real original Pochard, (Poker as we call them in Norfolk,)
and does not require any second qualifying epithet.