The True Ducks. 



India as far south as the Tinnevelly 

 District of Madras, where Mr. W. N. 

 Fleming records it as fairly common. 

 Being found so far south as this, it will 

 no doubt be hereafter observed in Ceylon, 

 It occurs throughout the Himalayas, but 

 there is no evidence that any ducks of 

 this species remain to breed in Kashmir 

 or elsewhere within our limits. 



Notices of the occurrence of the Wigeon 

 in the eastern portion of the Empire are 

 few in number, but there can be little 

 doubt that this widely spread Duck will 

 be found to visit every portion of the 

 country from Assam down to the southern 

 limits of Pegu. Blyth recorded it years 

 ago from Arrakan ; Colonel McMaster 

 wrote that the Wigeon was commoner in 

 Burma than in India ; Mr. Hume found 

 it to be one of the commonest Ducks of 

 Manipur ; Captain T. S. Johnson informs 

 me that he and his party procured four 

 Wigeon, one Christmas week, near Man- 

 dalay ; and lastly. Major G. Rippon writes 

 to me that he has obtained this species at 

 Fort Stedman in the Southern Shan States. 

 The Wigeon has not yet been met with 

 in Tenasserim, but it will undoubtedly be 

 found in that extensive province when 

 observers become more numerous. 



