MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



75! 



The guns were placed behind bushes on bunds and mounds specially con- 

 structed and beaters wade in to flush the birds. No regular register of the 

 bags have hitherto been kept, but this year the following geese and duck were 

 noticed in the bag :— Greylag, Gadwall Shoveller, Pochard. Widgeon, Red-cre- 

 sted Pochard, Tufted Pochard, Brahminy Duck Spot-bill, Nukta, White-eyed, 

 Pochard, Marble Duck (only one shot), Common Teal, Blue- winged Teal 

 and Cotton Teal. A Pink-footed Goose was shot, but was not seen by 

 the writer. 



The bulk of the bag at the shoots consists of Common Teal, White-eyed 

 Pochard. Gadwall and Shoveller Very large flocks of Pintail frequent this 

 Jhil. but in accordance with their usual way habits do not afford the same 

 chances as the duck named above. 



L. IMPEY, Lt.-Col. 



Bharatpur, 29th April 1909. 



No. XIV.— THE NESTING OF THE BRAHMINY DUCK 



(iCASARCA RUT J LA). 



Captain A. R. B. Shuttleworth has sent me the following regarding the 



\^^ nesting of the Brahminy 



Site of Merlin's Nsf 

 X 1 6 feet approx 



Hole through which 



■ Brahmiay duuk 



^^lescendbd to her nest. 



■Nv'Stof Brahramy 

 duck inlde 

 hoUow tree. 



Duck in Chinese Turkest- 

 an. As it will doubtless 

 prove of interest to a great 

 many of our readers, I 

 send it for publication, to- 

 gether with a sketch taken 

 on the spof. Writing from 

 Camp Kizil Bui, C, Tur- 

 kestan, 19th April 1909, he 

 says : — " I was after tiger 

 f woolly tiger) one day, and 

 as I was sitting over a kill, 

 I noticed, to my intense 

 surprise, a couple of Brah- 

 miny come and settle on a 

 tree quite close to me. I 

 had no idea these birds 

 ever (Settled on trees, as I 

 have never seen them do 

 so in India. My surprise 

 was heightened when I saw 

 one of them go into a hole 

 in the tree. Later on I 

 found a newly- made nest 

 in this tree, although I was 



