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Austen. He says : — " I got this bird at 

 Dimapur on the Dunsiri river ; it appears 

 to prefer sluggish streams Hke this flowing 

 through forest, for I once flushed this bird 

 in such a haunt in the interior of the 

 Garo Hills. I am informed by Mr. 

 James, of the Police at Samaguting, that 

 it breeds on the Dunsiri, and that he had 

 shot the young birds. It is called the 

 ' Deo-hans ' in Assam. Mr. J. Burt, of 

 Tezpur, informs me that the white-winged 

 Sheldrake perches on trees, and that one 

 was killed thus sitting by Mr. J. Martin 

 of Paniputa tea plantation, near Tezpur." 



In the " Birds of India," Jerdon 

 wrote : — " This fine Duck has hitherto 

 been only procured in Burmah, but I 

 have received information of a so-called 

 '.Black Goose' occurring in Dacca and 

 other parts of Eastern Bengal, which, 

 from the description, can be no other 

 bird." Subsequently, he wrote to Mr. 

 Hume a note on this bird, of which I 

 here reproduce a portion. He said : — " I 

 have seen several flocks of Casarca kuco- 

 ptera in the lower part of the Brahma- 

 putra, where it joins the Ganges, not far 

 above Dacca, where, indeed, Simson had 

 seen it." 



Mr. F. B. Simson, however, in an 



