MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 263 



•' While duck shooting with ;i frieml on the river Bcus on the Gth of Jaiiuarv 

 last, at a point opposite Talwara, in the Hoshiarpur District, wo saw four wild 

 Swans on the opposite side of the river. As there was no moans of crossing, 

 and the Swans were too far and too wary to be reached even by my four 

 bore duck gun, we sent back to camp for our -303 rifles. With these 

 weapons we managed to secure one of the four. When we recovered the bird 

 wc found it to he undoubtedly a * Whoopcr.* Cygnus mvsicvs. Its weight and 

 measurements were as follows : — Weight 12 lbs. (sic). Length from tip of bill 

 to end of tail four feet eight and a half inches, spread of wing seven feet 

 five inches," 



Now there is a printer's mistake in the record of this bird's weight as noted in 

 the mark quoted. My memory, and also a note in my diary, made at the time, 

 tells me that this Whooper's weight was twenty-one (21 lbs.) pounds, and not 

 twelve (12 lbs.). In printing the description from my manuscript account, the 

 printer has evidently placed the figure " 1 " before the figure " 2." instead of 

 after it, making the weight '' 12 " instead of " 21 " lbs. I see in " Indian Duels 

 and their Allies" page 13 the query " ?" is placed after the weight given as 

 •' 12 lbs.," and rightly so, but for my own credit I should like to have this 

 mistake rectified in the next issue of the Society's Journal. 



W. OSBORN. Lt.-General, I.A. 



NaGGAK, KuLU, PUN.TAn. 



1908. 



No, XVII.— THE WHITE-WINGED WOOD-DUCK {ASARCORNIS 

 SCUTULATA) IN TENASSERIM. 



While touring last month in the forest country between the Attaraii and 

 Haungtharaw rivers, Amherst District. I came on three White-winged Wood- 

 Duck {^Asarcornis scutulata). I shot one, a fine drake, and as there appears 

 to be some doubt as to this bird's occurrence in Tenasserim 1 am posting you 



the skin. 



K. MACDONALD. 



MouLMEiN, 2oth December 1908. 



[The skin proves to be that of a White-winged Wood-Duck (Asurcomi^ scutulata). — Edp.] 



No. XVIII.— THE COTTON-TEAL {N ETTA PUS 

 COROMANDELIANUS) IN SIND. 



On referring to " Indian Diicl-s and their Allies " I see that tlie Cotton-Teal 

 has been definitely recorded once only in Sind and that no date is given, 



I am now sending you, per registered parcel post, the skin and head com- 

 plete of what I think is a Cotton-Teal {Nettapus cormandelianus) not in full 

 plumage, I shot it at a jheel in Karidassas Sajawal, Karachi District, on Decem- 

 ber 27th. It was one of a bunch of 7 or 8 that came over me flying quite low 

 and fast over the tamarisk bushes. If it is a Cotton-Teal, the incident may be 

 of interest as an authenticated instance of the occurrence of the Cotton-Teal 

 in Sind. 



