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It extends throughout Burmah, but is absent in certain portions. 

 Hume saja that it is not obtained in Tennasserim, but it has now been 

 frequently recorded thence. It is common in parts between the 

 Sithang and Salween and extends west of the former river. It does 

 occur in Cashmere and has been, since Hume wrote " Stray Feathers," 

 recorded from that state on various occasions. 



It would seem that in the extreme North and North-West the Gar- 

 ganey is perhaps the earliest of the ducks to arrive in India, but 

 further East it is quite a toss up as to whether the Common Teal or the 

 Garganey first puts in an appearance ; on tbe whole I should think the 

 Common Teol is tbe earlier of the two. 



Even in the West the Garganey is not always the first, the Common 

 Teal being sometimes the first recorded. 



It is very noticeable that, though in migrating South the birds once 

 in India take long to work further down the Peninsular, yet they work 

 North very speedily. 



In Northern India they arrive in September, but according to 

 Theobald and others they do not get to Southern India before Decem- 

 ber. Leaving, however, they delay until March and April much the 

 same time that they leave all portions of their winter home, though 

 everywhere a few stay through May and even into June. 



As regards the numbers they arrive in, Hume's note on his enormous 

 bag at one time shews what may be sometimes seen. He writes: " I 

 have a special note of having found a flock which I estimated to con- 

 tain twenty thousand individuals at Rahun in the Etawah district, on 

 the 28th of August 1865. Never before or since have I seen so huge 

 a body of fowl of one kind, and I have noted that I have bagged forty- 

 seven of them, besides losing at the time many wounded birds (I had no 

 dogs with me) in the rushes, I had sent my gun punt (built exactly 

 on the lines of one of our Norfolk boats) a few days previously out there 

 to see that it was all right for the coming season, and I had taken 

 with me a small but heavy Monghyr made swivel gun carrying only 

 8 ozs. to try. To my surprise I found the thickest body of fowl on 

 the open part of the jhil I bad ever seen. I loaded the swivel with 

 No. 4 shot and worked up quite close to some of them, and within some 

 fifty yards of the main body, when seeing they wore all about to start, 

 I fired and knocked over at least sixty, I actually secured forty seven. 



