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Mr. Hume that he had shot this species 

 in Kulu. Hodgson is said to have 

 procured this Duck in Nepal, but there 

 are no specimens in his collection, now 

 in the British Museum, and his draw- 

 ing of Fiiligula nyroca appears to me to 

 represent the Eastern White-eyed Duck 

 and not a Scaup Duck as suggested 

 by Mr. Hume. Colonel McMaster 

 was of opinion that he observed the 

 Scaup Duck in the Northern Circars, but 

 he does not appear to have obtained a 

 specimen. 



Turning to more recent times, we find 

 that Mr. R. N. Stoker shot no less than 

 six specimens of the Scaup Duck in the 

 Punjab, in the months of November, 

 December, January and March. Five 

 of these birds were shot in the Indus 

 river, near Attock ; the sixth, in the Jubbee 

 river, near Hasan Abdal. Mr, W. N. Chill 

 obtained an adult female, in March, near 

 Delhi, and Mr. J. D. Inverarity informs 

 us, in the pages of the Bombay Natural 

 History Society's Journal, that he observed 

 this species at Panwell, near Bombay. It 

 has also been recorded from Karachi by 

 Mr. Murray. It is very probable that this 

 Duck has been overlooked, and that it 19 

 less rare than is commonly supposed. 



