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There is no country outside the limits 

 of the Indian Empire from which the 

 Pink-headed Duck has been recorded, 

 and it is therefore probable that it is 

 restricted to the Empire, being migratory 

 to a small extent according to climate 

 and rainfall. 



Mr. Frank B. Simson has written an 

 interesting account of this Duck in the 

 " Ibis," and as it was published after the 

 issue of Messrs. Hume and Marshall's 

 work, and is not referred to in Mr. Stuart 

 Baker's account of this species in a recent 

 volume of the Journal of the Natural 

 History Society of Bombay, I shall re- 

 produce it nearly in full. He says : — 

 *'The Pink-headed Duck is a bird little 

 known to the Bengal sportsman and or- 

 nithologist, and considered rare. It is, 

 however, far from uncommon in a re- 

 stricted area of Bengal, and may be said 

 to make its home in the southern part 

 of the district of Purneah, and in the 

 country which borders the left or northern 

 bank of the Ganges, between the Coosy 

 River, which separates Purneah from 

 Bhaugulpore, and in the Maldah district. 

 It is found more sparingly in Bhaugulpore 

 and Tirhoot, and occasionally in likely 

 places in the North -Western Provinces 



