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either on trees or bamboos. Description of nestling in down is : A spot at base 

 of both wings and on each side of rnmp, also a broad supercilium and a broad 

 band from gape above dark triangular spot and right round nape, chin, throat 

 and sides of neck and whole lower plumage greyish and white with base of 

 down and tips of hairs brownish ; remaining plumage blackish brown. Bill : 

 Upper mandible plumbeous, with the margins and whole of lower mandible 

 yellowish, except tip of the latter which is pale, and the nail of the former is 

 dark flesh colour ; iris, brown ; legs and feet, black ; claws, brownish, horny. 

 An albino of this species was seen by Mr. A. Christian at Umgaon. Native name 

 SUM. 



(305) D. fttlva— The Large Whistling Teal. 



Blanford, No. 1590 ; Hume, No. 953. 



Mr. Christian told me that a bird of this species used to visit his tank at 



Umgaon. I think he must have been mistaken, as I have never found it in the 



district, nor do the mirshikars, to whom I have shown a specimen, know the bird. 



Of course it may occur and might be overlooked. 



(306) Nettopus coromandelianus. — The Cotton Teal. 

 Blanford, No. 1591 ; Hume, No. 951. 

 Common. I have seldom found their nests, and have been most unsuccessful 

 about getting eggs, not having a single one. On the 17th July 1899, I got a nest 

 with one egg, which was left : it was revisited on the 28th and found to contain 

 two broken eggs and was deserted. Another nest had also one egg which was 

 also left, but had disappeared on being examined later. Native name Girra. 



(307) Anas boscas.— The Mallard. 

 Blanford, No. 1592 ; Hume, No. 958. 

 Very rare. A female was brought me on the 15th November 1899, from 

 Minti Chaur. Mr. Scroope and Mr. Onrait shot one at Khatauna on the 2nd 

 February, 1900. Mr. G. Dalgliesh, in the Zoologist and says : — " A pair were 

 shot out of two pairs on Hattowrie Lake in December 1897, and I saw a solitary 

 female at Dalsing Serai in January, 1900. Mr. Edgell has shot one or two. 

 (308) A. pcecilorhyncha. — The Spotted-billed Duck. 

 Blanford, No, 1593 ; Hume, No. 959. 

 The only specimen I have is a female which was presented to me by the late 

 Mr. " Peter " Grahame, who shot it on a chaur near Eamnugger Factory on the 

 24th June, 1900. There was another which he says he could have shot if he had 

 not been so busy keeping his dog from getting the one he shot. Mr. G. Dalgliesh 

 mentions in the Zoologist that he saw a pair at Dalsing Serai in June, 1901. 

 (309) Eunetta falcata. — The Crested or Falcated Teal. 

 Blanford, No. 1594 ; Hume, No. 960 bis. 

 I have nothing further to add to my notes on this species already published 

 in this Journal. I have not seen any specimens since the cold weather of 1900, 

 though a good number of duck and teal have passed through my hands since 

 then. I have also had men on the look out for any rare species on the different 

 marshes, but none of this species have been got. I fancy there must have been 

 an influx of this species from 1898 to 1900. 



