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Mr. W. Moylan shot this bird in Sing- 

 bhoom, Eastern Bengal. He writes : — 

 " Mr. Moylan, in narrating to me how he 

 met with this Duck in Sini, in Singbhoom, 

 said that they were shooting in grass- 

 covered swamps at the edge of heavy 

 forest. They were standing at the edge of 

 this forest when he saw four birds, which 

 he took to be geese, coming down towards 

 him and his companions. They were 

 at a great height, but a charge of S. K. G. 

 shot took effect on the foremost, and he 

 came crash to the ground, turning out to 

 be a fine drake. It is possible that Mr. 

 Moylan may have been wrong in his 

 identification, but I failed to discover 

 any reason to make me think so, though 

 I questioned him closely on the matter. 

 This was the only occasion on which he 

 ever saw the Duck." 



Mr. Stuart Baker himself found these 

 Ducks in the Barpeta part of the Kamroop 

 district. He observes :—" When I saw 

 the pair in Barpeta, I was shooting Kya 

 Partridge in the ekra-covered patches of 

 swamp in the forests, and a pair got up 

 some forty or fifty yards from me from 

 some swamp just as I emerged from the 

 forest. Two barrels of No. 7 pattered on 

 their backs at once, but seemed not to 



