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place. Besides these, one was obtained in Upper Burma, near 

 Bhamo, in 1903, and a second by Hopwood at Kindat in March, 

 1906, and others by the latter in Aracan and the Chindwin ; Major 

 Cowley, of the 43rd Gurkha Eegiment, obtained one in Manipur, and 

 Colonel Tytler and Mr. Higgins each also obtained one there. In 

 Tirhoot Mr. Inglis has obtained many specimens, and the western 

 records have lately been added to l)y Mr. L. Kobertson, who obtained 

 an adult male of this species in the Narra Valley, Sind. 



Glasscock obtained a male at Jullunder, Kelly and Bignell each 

 one near Roorka, Wall one in Gonda, Oudh, and \Yaite one at 

 Delhi and one in Ferozepur, the sex not given, and Barton also 

 obtained one, unsexed, at Llashar, U.P. 



In addition to those recorded above, the only other specimens I 

 have ever heard of was one, a young male, shot by my father, Mr. 

 E. B. Baker, in Jessore, and several shot by Messrs. Moore, Mundy, 

 Stevens and myself in Assam. 



Anderson obtained specimens on the Taipeng river, in Upper 

 Burma ; but I cannot ascertain how many he got. 



There is no reason, however, that sportsn^en in Upper Burma 

 should not meet with this bird much more often than would seem 

 to have been the case hitherto, for North-east Burma is well within 

 range of its annual migrations, and now that sportsmen are alive 

 to the fact that records of rare ducks are still desirable, we ought 

 to have a good many from that quarter. 



Nidification. — The Bronze-capped Teal breeds throughout Southern 

 Siberia to the east centre, but rarely to the west ; it has been found 

 breeding on all four shores of Lake Baikal, but even there more 

 plentifully to the east and south ; it breeds also on the Amur, and 

 probably a good deal further north. Middendorff says that it 

 " breeds plentifully in the Stanaway mountains, and nearly to the 

 tops of the ranges," and, as Hume points out, if it selects sites at 

 as high an altitude as this, it is sure to extend considerably further 

 north in the plains. 



In Manchuria, where my informant took several nests, the birds 

 are said to make them in low-lying parts, along the banks of the 

 larger rivers, which are more or less in the condition of swamps. 

 The nest appears to be a rather well-built affair of rushes and reeds 



