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winter visitor, in greater or less abundance, 

 over the peninsula of India from Sind to 

 Bengal, and from the Himalayas down to 

 about the nth degree of north latitude. 

 It must undoubtedly occur in Assam and 

 the country to the south, but we have no 

 definite information on this point till we 

 come to Manipur, where Mr. Hume 

 observed it to be very abundant not only 

 on the Logtak lake but elsewhere. It 

 may, I think, without doubt be said to be 

 common over almost every part of Upper 

 Burma. It is so abundant near Mandalay 

 that in the large bag of Ducks and Geese 

 made by Capt. T. S. Johnson and his 

 party, and to which I have so often made 

 reference, there were 122 Tufted Ducks 

 out of a total of 562 birds. Major 

 G. Rippon informs me that this Duck 

 is found all over the Southern Shan States. 

 I did not meet with it in any part of 

 Lower Burma. 



The Tufted Duck occurs over the 

 whole of Europe and Asia, being found 

 in summer up to about the 70th degree 

 of north latitude. In winter it occurs 

 over a considerable portion of Northern 

 Africa, and Southern Asia, from the Red 

 Sea to China. It occurs as far south as 

 the Philippines and Borneo, and has even 



