GLAUCIONETTA CLANGULA 295 



Colonel Yerbury wrote to the Journal (in Joe. cit.) as follows: — 



In the Chack Plains, on tiie Ijanks of the Indus above Attock, 

 the Golden Eye is a regular, and by no means rare cold weather 

 visitant. 



"On referring to my old Shikar diary, I find the following 

 records regarding it : — 



I. Azgar, 26th December, '85 (2 spec. 2 2). 

 II. Azgar, 27th December, '85 (1 do. <? immature). 



III. Azgar, 8th February, '86 (2 do. uusexed). 



IV. River Indus between Attock and Azgar, 24th February, '86 



(1 spec, unsexed). 

 ' On the latter date I was in company with Dr. Stoker, and we 

 shot up-stream from Attock along the banks of the river to Gaziabad, 

 returning the next day to .\ttock by boat. 



I can find no records of shooting any specimens during the 

 cold weather of 1886-87, but I think this was probably due to my 

 having refrained from shooting them, the duck being useless for 

 the table. 



" A brief description of the locality affected by the species may 

 be of interest. The River Indus, after having been mucli narrowed 

 above Torbela, by the near approach of the mountains on each side, 

 widens out at the Chack Plain to a considerable breadth (possil)ly 

 six or seven miles in places), to be again constricted at Attock. In 

 the Chack Plain, where the river is widest, there are numerous 

 islands in the bed of the stream, and it is in the channel between the 

 islands and the banks of the river that the Golden Eye lies. A 

 similar widening of the river takes place below, further south, below 

 Kalabagh, and there, probably too, the species will turn up. 



" I never met with this species away from the river, and, like 

 Dr. Stoker, generally found it in flocks of four or five individuals 

 .... The most interesting piece of information given me by my 

 informants was the short period they considered the species to be 

 away from the neighbourhood ; they said it was absent only during 

 three months — April, May and .Tune — but I had no opportunity of 

 verifying this statement." 



In 1903, on the '25th April, Mr. Morton Eden sent me a duck to 

 identify, which had been shot by him in Sadiya, Lakhimpur district. 

 With this skin he sent the accompanying note : — 



" I think it is a Golden-eye .... it is not a rare bird above 

 Sampura.'' 



In answer to a letter from me, Mr. Morton Eden then sent me 

 the following interesting account of what he had observed : — 



