Fuligula nyroca, Gitldenstadt.
YoniaCUlar ITamSS.—[Karchiya, Boorar-mada, (Hindee), N. IV. Provinces;
Lal-bigri, Bhooti-hans, Bengal; Burnu, Sindh; Malac, Nepal Terai; Chiki (or
Chikit,) Kanat Aurdak, (Turki,), Ydr∧ ]
OMMMON as is this little species, its distribution in
India has been as yet by no means satisfactorily
determined.
It is common in the Himalayas during the cold
season, in suitable localitiest from Gilglt to, at any rate,
Sikhim, and in Kashmir many are permanent residents
and breed there.
In the winter it is more or less common throughout the
Punjab and Sindh, (where possibly some few may remain to
breed,) in Kathiawar, Rajputana, the Central India Agency and
Khandesh, the Central Provinces, tire North-Western Provinces
and Oudh, Bengal west of the Brahmaputra, and Chota Nagpur.
It is less common in Cutch, the Nizam's Territories, the
Northern Circars, the Deccan, and the Panch Mahals, and is
very rare in the Southern Konkan. Southwards I have failed to
trace it ; it is not recorded from Mysore, the Malabar Coast,
Travancore, Ceylon, or any of the Madras districts south of
Mysore and the town of Madras, though it must needs straggle
into some, if not all, of these localities. Eastward of the Brahmaputra,
the only record I have of it is of a single specimen
procured by Mr. Inglis in Cachar, Mr. Damant did
not notice it from Manipur, or Colonel Graham from
Dibrugarh or Assam generally, and none of Godwin-
Austen's or my collectors have apparently met with it in that
province. In Chittagong, from what Mr. Fasson* says, it probably
docs occur. Blyth records it from Arakan, but gives no
authority, and I have received no intimation of its having been
procured there of late years, and no one has reported it from
either Pegu or Tenasserim.
' " I cannot speak from my own knowledge, but Mr. Lowis tells me that the
Ferruginous (or White-eyed) Pochard occur* here.
" But all wild ducks are rare in ChlttftgOOg, and confined to two localities only—.
the Island of Kutubdia.and a series of jhils amongst low scrub-grown hills near Fcnna
in Futikchcri. I have been able to visit neither place this season."—II. FASSON,