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In Burma it is extremely rare ; Blyth obtained it in Arakan, 

 and says that it occurs in Independent Burma (where'.'), but Gates 

 did not come across it in Pegu, and I can find no other record of it. 



Hodgson obtained it more than once in Nepal, and Pemberton 

 in Tibet. " A member of the Society " in Vol. ii of the ' Bombay 

 Journal ' writes : — 



"Id Seine! .... I have one report of the Bengali pink- 

 headed duck occuiriug as a straggler, Init it cannot yet be called a 

 recorded species." 



I suppose by this he means that he does not place much faith 

 in the report. 



I see Murray does not record it as a Sind bird, although he is 

 very generous in the number of birds he assigns to that part of India. 



Mr. Moylan told me that once out shooting in Sini, in Singbhoom, 

 with three other guns, they accounted for no fewer than six of these 

 lovely ducks. They were found in the muddy, weedy, reed-covered 

 tanks, lying just outside the heavy forest. Here they were in 

 company with vast numbers of other kinds of ducks and teal, a 

 big bag of which was made on this occasion. He seems frequently 

 to have met with them in various parts of Singbhoom, but, as far as 

 I could ascertain, had not seen any others shot. 



In the Punjab its occurrences are limited to seven actually 

 recorded. Two were shot by Colonel Kinloch, and another is 

 mentioned by him as having been shot by a friend (a brother 

 officer), whilst another is noticed by Hume. All four birds were 

 obtained near Delhi. Two other birds were seen by Mr. Hugh 

 Whistler and Mr. Whitehead on the Sutlej near Eupar in the 

 Ambala district, and finally another bird was shot by ^Ir. Marshall 

 at Gurdaspur. In the North-west it is equally rare, and as the 

 authorities who would attempt to prove otherwise are anonymous, it 

 is not worth while quoting them. In Oudh it is perhaps less rare, 

 and a few birds are seen and either shot or netted nearly every vear. 

 Latham says that it " is common in Oudh, where it lives generally in 

 pairs, is often kept tame, and becomes very familiar " (!). 



Nidification. — What a pity Shillingford has not given us some 

 more details concerning all the nests he seems to have found, and 



