204 Manual of the Game Birds of India. 



The Falcated Duck in summer inhabits 

 North-eastern Asia, extending from the 

 Yenesei River to Kamtschatka and Japan. 

 In winter it appears to be very abundant 

 in China. It has on a few occasions 

 occurred in Europe. 



Very Httle is on record about the habits 

 of this Duck. Colonel Prjevalsky remarks 

 that its note is a tolerably loud and 

 piercing whistle. Von Schrenk tells us 

 that it cackles as it feeds, and from his 

 account it appears that this species swims 

 in streams which, sometimes at any rate, 

 have a strong current. Mr. F. W. Styan 

 states that this bird collects in large flocks 

 on the Yangtse river. I can find little 

 else about its general habits. 



Regarding the nidification of the Fal- 

 cated Duck, Mr. Stuart Baker writes : — 

 " In Manchuria, where my informant took 

 several nests, they are said to make them 

 on low-lying parts, along the banks of the 

 larger rivers, which are more or less in the 

 condition of swamps. The nest appears 

 to be a rather well-built affair of rushes 

 and weeds, rather more compactly put 

 together than are most ducks' nests, and 

 lined very plentifully with down, presum- 

 ably taken from the breasts of the parent 

 birds themselves. So thick is this down 



