Fuligula rulina, Pallas.
T m u i l l I Names —[ Lall-chonch, Lall-sir, ff. Provinces ; Hero-har.5 (i') ;
™ C h S S S a S (?)• Bengal; Doora«(6"). Sunwa ( ? ) Nepal; Raltoba,
Nool-gool, j £ ! ( M ; Kizil-basli aurtlak, (Turki) Y&rkemd; J
HE range of this species in India is very similar to
that of the Pochard, but it seems to extend normally
even less far south than this latter.
Like this it has not yet been reported from Kashmir
; but as it occurs during the cold season from time
to time in Kullu, Kumaon and Nepal, it will probably
prove to visit the Wooller and other lakes, apparently
far better suited to its tastes than any of the other Himalayan
localities where it has been procured.
It is more or less common in winter in suitable localities
throughout the Punjab, the N. W. Provinces (rarer in the
Doab, more common in Bundclkhand and Rohilkhand,) and
Oudh, Sindh, Rajputana, the northern portions of the Central
India Agency, the northern and eastern portions of the Central
Provinces, Chota Nagpur, Bengal, west of the Brahmaputra, the
valley of Assam right up to Sadiya, and the Northern Circars,
northwards at any rate of Chicacolc. It is pretty common in
Northern Gujerat and Berar, rare in Cutch, Kathiawar, Khandesh,
theDeccan. the southern portions of the Central Provinces, and the
Nizam's Dominions. It has not been recorded from the Southern
Konkan, Mysore or any of the Madras districts south of thislattcr.
In Ceylon, too, it has not, so far as I am aware, ever been
procured ; but Layard believed that he had seen it there, and not
improbably a few individuals of this species may occasionally
straggle.not only to Ceylon, but to all the southern portions of
the Peninsula. I have no record of its occurrence in Cachar,
Sylhet, Manipur, Tipperah, Chittagong or any part of British
Burma; hut outside our limits Blyth notes it, I know not
on what authority, from Bhamo, in Independent Burma.
The fact is, that in the case of this and the majority of species,
the distribution has never been thoroughly worked out.
This is the first attempt to do this, and will, it is to be hoped,
lead to a far more complete knowledge of the subject.