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in differenl directions showed me that it was a hrood of young ones 

 that I had come across. I instituted a most careful search, but only 

 came upon one youngster, which I caught. All this time the duck 

 was flying round and round within twenty yards, uttering a loud 

 double quack. The drake also appeared on the scene, but kept 

 further off and was silent." 



Davison, writing of the Andaman Teal, says : — 



' It appears to frequent alike both fresh and salt water. During 

 the day it either perches among mangroves or settles down on some 

 shady spot on the banks of a stream ; when wounded it does not 

 attempt at first to dive, but when hard pressed it dives, but does not 

 remain long under water, and appears soon to get exhausted. It 

 feeds by night in the fresh-water ponds, and I was informed that it 

 is to be seen in some small flocks in the paddy-Helds about Aberdeen 

 in the mornings and evenings. Sometimes, in going up the creeks, a 

 pair will slip off the banks into the water, and keep swimming about 

 twenty yards ahead of the boat, only rising when hard pressed, but 

 they are more wary when in flocks. I could learn nothing about the 

 breeding of this species. The only note I have heard them utter is a 

 low whistle, and this apparently only at night when they are feeding." 



