MARMARONETTA ANGUSTIROSTRIS 243 



Northern Guzerat, the Southern part of the Dehra Gazi Khan 

 District and of Bhawalpur, in all three of which it is a regular l)ut 

 less abundant visitant. No doubt it will be met with in Kutch and 

 Kathiawar, but it has not been thence recorded as yet. 



But outside these limits it occurs much farther east as a 

 traveller. I have had specimens from Western Oodeypore and from 

 near Delhi. The late Mr. A. Anderson procured it in the North- 

 west Provinces, at Futtehgarh, and in Oudh near Hurdui, and I 

 myself procured two freshly-killed specimens in the Calcutta market, 

 the one in December and the other in February, which had been 

 captured about twenty-two miles south-west and some eighteen miles 

 west, respectively, of the metropolis." 



Since this was written the Marbled Teal has been obtained in 

 Kutch, several times again about Delhi, by Brookes in Ferozepore, 

 Burton in Baroda, Logan-Hume near Nowshera, Berthon in 

 Kathiawar, H. C. Wright in the Nail, and more than once also in 

 the Calcutta market, but nothing has been recorded, that I can find, 

 which in any way extends the original area as given hy Hume. 

 A specimen lent me from the Bombay Nat. Hist. Society's collection 

 has no locality given on its ticket, but was presumably collected in 

 one of the places above-mentioned. 



I should note that when showing this specimen to a friend, he 

 at once said that he had shot two birds of the same kind in Gowhatty, 

 Assam ; he said that neither he nor any of the men to whom he 

 showed them had ever seen the duck before, and could not name it. 

 He was very sure of its being the same species. Later, about 1912, 

 a specimen was killed at Sibsagar in Assam and sent to me for 

 identification, proving to be of this species. 



Nidification. — Mr. B. Alexander found this bird breeding plentifully 

 in the Cape Verde Islands, and it appears to breed on the greater 

 portions of its habitat round the Mediterranean. Although breeding 

 in latitudes so far south, it is unusually late in breeding, May and 

 June being the months in which the eggs are laid. It is said to 

 make a rough nest, much like that of the common teal, and to place 

 it amongst rushes on land surrounding swamps and various kinds 

 of water, and also on the sea-shore, this last more especially in Spain. 

 Of this latter country Colonel Irby thus records its nesting in 

 Andalusia : — 



