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The larger number of individuals of this 

 species which visit the Indian Empire 

 consist of females and young males, 

 and these are almost certain to be passed 

 over as Common Teal. 



The history of the few specimens of 

 this Teal that have been met with in 

 India is soon recorded. Blyth found 

 one in the Calcutta bazaar in 1844. 

 Mr. E. James procured another in Sind. 

 A third was obtained by Mr. W. N. 

 Chill at Sultanpur, near Delhi. Colonel 

 McMaster believed that a Teal that he 

 shot in the Upper Circars was referable 

 to this species. Finally Mr. W. N. Chill 

 obtained another specimen of this Teal, 

 alive, also near Delhi. This bird, unlike 

 the first procured by Mr. Chill, did not 

 find its way to the Hume Collection, and 

 is not available for examination. 



The Baikal Teal summers in Eastern 

 Siberia, and winters in Japan and China. 

 It has occurred in Europe. 



Very little has appeared regarding the 

 habits of this species since the issue of 

 Messrs. Hume and Marshall's work on 

 the Game Birds, and I can only repeat, 

 in a somewhat condensed form, what has 

 been already published. 



Colonel Prjevalsky remarks ;— " When 



