Identifier: indianduckstheir00bake (find matches)
Title: The Indian ducks and their allies
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, E. C. Stuart (Edward Charles Stuart), 1864-1944 Lodge, George Edward, ill Grnvold, Henrik, 1858-1940, ill Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, ill Green, J., lithographer Bombay Natural History Society
Subjects: Ducks Ducks Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Bombay) : Published by the Bombay Natural History Society London : R.H. Porter Calcutta and Simla : Thacker, Spink, and Co. Bombay : Thacker and Co.
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ment, brought it to hand. I remember the duck, though it must have been a very fully adultmale, had bright jmle yellow irides. The bird was so rank and fishy thatwe could not stand it on the table. Two of my collectors (Mahomedans), who had lived all their lives inCachar and Sylhet, say that this White-eye is a faster, stronger bird onthe wing than the CJommon White-eye, an equally good diver andswimmer, and much more shy and wary. Seebohm, in his Birds of the Japanese Empire, says that theSiberian White-eyed Duck breeds in the valley of the Amoor. This isthe only note of its breeding which I can find. It is probable that in nidification it will differ in no way from theCommon White-eye, though we may expect to find its eggs to averagesomewhat larger, and the single egg in my possession bears this out. It isa very dirty dull-coloured drab, in shape a broad regular ellipse, and itmeasures 2*01 x 151 inches. It has no gloss, and the texture is exactlythe same as that of 2i. africana. -J
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Q a:UiI UJ UJ XH NYROCA AFRICANA. 227 (38) NYROCA AFRICANA.THE WHITE-EYED POCHAED oe WHITE-EYE. Aythya nyroca, Jenlon, B. I. iii, p. 813 ; Hume, Nest ^ Eggs, p. 645; id. Str. Feath. i, p. 265 ; Adam, ibid. p. 402; Butler, ibid, iv, p. 30 ; v, p. 234 ; Davids. S) Wend. ibid, vii, p. 93; Ball, ibid, p, 232.Fuligula nyroca, Hume, Str. Feath. vii, p. 493 ; ibid. Cat. no. 969 ; Scully, Str. Feath. viii, p. 363; Hume S,- Mar. 6ame-B. iii, p. 263; Vidal, Str. Feath. ix, p. 93 ; Hume, ibid. p. 259 ; Butler, ibid. p. 439 ; Beid, ibid, x, p. 84; Davidson, ibid. p. 326; Taylor, ibid. pp. 528, 531 ; Oates, B. of Brit. Burm. ii, p. 287; id. Nests 4 Eggs (2nd ed.), iii, p. 292; Barnes, B. of Bom. p. 413 ; Hume, Str. Feath. xi, p. 347; Sinclair, Jour. B. N. H. S. xiii, p. 192.Njrroca ferruginea, Blanford, Fauna B. I. iv, p. 460.N3rroca africana, Salvadori, Cat. B. M. sxvii, p. 345.Nyroca nyroca, Oates, Game-B. ii, p. 318. Description. Male.—Whole head, neck, and breast rich rufous

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