MRRC.AXSKR MERGANSER ORIENTALIS 'M9 



A \ei'\ young, uiisexed bird in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, has the 

 upper parts of the head and neck dull rufous, the lower parts white, and 

 the upper parts and tail grey: the back very rufescent, and the wing- and 

 tail-feathers dark-shafted. 



Distribution. — The Eastern Goosander is found from Baluchistan, 

 Afghanistan, and Turkestan throughout the Himalayas, Tii)et and 

 the North Central Hills of China. 



With regard to Indian limits, Hume goes so fully into details 

 that I cannot do better than quote him fully. He writes : — 



" lu the larger rivers of the Himalayas, though nowhere 

 numerically very abundant, they are so universally distributed high 

 up in summer, low down in winter, that it is needless to specify 

 the particular localities, over seventy in number, whence I have 

 received them or where they have been reported to have been 

 obtained. 



Outside the Himalyas I have received tiiem, or known for 

 certain of their having been oljtained, from the Peshawar valley, 

 on the Cabul river: near Attoek, Kalabagh, and just above Dehra 

 Ismail Khan on the Indus : near Sealkot, on the Chenab, and 

 smaller streams : the Kangra valley : below Eoopur on the Sutlej : 

 Dehra Dun, not only on the Ganges from Eukikes to below 

 Hurdwar, but in the interior ; Pilibhit on the Rardeh ; the Sandi 

 Jhil, near Hardui {Irhtj) ; the Kosi river towai'ds the north of tlie 

 Purneah district ; the Western Dears (where they appear to he 

 extremely numerous) ; the Monas in the Kamrup district ; some 

 streams north of Lakhimpur ; close to Sadiya ; numerous localities 

 near the bases of the Garo and Khasi Hills on both their northern 

 and southern faces, and well inside them ; near Jamtara, about 

 156 miles from Calcutta on the East Indian line of railway (Brooks), 

 at a large lake seven miles from Burrakur : on the Grand Trunk 

 Pioad, where there were some hundreds {Parker) ; on the Damuda 

 in Bankurah and Bardwan ; in Manbhum and Dhalbhum on the 

 Subanrika ; Lohardugga (Ball) ; the Mahanadi, near Arung {Biaipin), 

 and further down almost to Sambalpur (BUicitt) ; this latter district 

 north of the Mahanadi (Ball) : Palamow (Money) ; and the Sone 

 river near Dehree-on-Sone (E. Stewart, C. S. TT'. Forsyth) ; lastly, 

 Ajmere, near which place Major O'Moore Creagh, B.C., shot a fine 

 male in a large tank."' 



In addition to these places, in ' Stray Feathers,' Vol. II, Hume 

 gives Sylhet and Cachar, though I have never seen or heard of 

 Goosanders myself in either of these districts. 



