192 1.] Birds of North- East Chihli. 43 



November. A few winter in the mountains on unfrozen 

 streams. 



A winged bird kept with the fowls and a tame duck became 

 very friendly with the latter, and after a few months lost 

 most of its natural shyness, feeding with the domestic bird 

 and quacking witli it in concert when its food was brought 

 to the chicken-yard. 



286. Anas zonorhyncha Swinhoe. 



Anas zonorhyncha D. & O. p. 496 ; La T. p. 584. 



Tiie Yellow-Nib Duck passes in March and April, and 

 from the beginning of September to November. It probably 

 breeds here as elsewhere in China. I have seen it hanging 

 in the game-shops in the market during January. 



This Duck was observed by me near Newchwang in early 

 summer. 



287. Eunetta falcata (Pallas). 



Euaettu falcata D. & 0, p. 504 ; La T. p. 585. 



The Falcated Teal is extremely abundant from the middle 

 of March to the beginning of May and during the latter 

 half of September, remaining until the end of October, and 

 occasionally during November^ as four were noted on the 

 13th of November, 1911. 



A winged bird, purchased in the spring of 1913, partly 

 put on eclipse plumage late in the summer. The forehead, 

 crown, lores, and sides of the head became brown, the fore- 

 head and crown being barred with deep bufE. Scapulars 

 brown, vermiculated or barred with dull light reddish- 

 brown ; the flanks reddish-brown, evenly barred with pale 

 rufons, ring round the neck deep brown; chin and sides of 

 neck speckled with brown. 



288. Chaulelasmus streperus (L.). 



Chaulelasmus streperus D. & O. p. 499; La T. p. 585. 



1 shot a male Gadwall on the 12th of April, 1911, and a 

 female on the 28th of September, 1913. This is one of the 

 less common Ducks in China. 



