The Stiff-tailed Ducks. 3)7 



Mr. F. Finn procured two specimens 

 of this Duck in the Calcutta market, 

 and he informs us that Capt. E. D. White 

 shot one between Lucknow and Bareilly 

 on the 22nd of January, in heavy 

 moult ; also that Capt. H. J. Sherwood, 

 obtained three specimens in December 

 in the Ganges Kadar, 20 miles south of 

 Roorki, and that Lieut. C. R. Bushe met 

 with one bird of this species at Sialkote, 

 Punjab, in February, 



The distribution of the Stiff-tailed 

 Duck is very similar to that of the Marbled 

 Duck. It appears to be migratory, but 

 to no great extent. The birds that 

 visit India probably come from Turke- 

 stan. It occurs in Spain ; on both the 

 southern and northern shores of the 

 Mediterranean, straggling sometimes into 

 Central Europe, and is found through 

 Palestine and South-western Asia as far 

 as Turkestan. It is also said to occur in 

 Southern Siberia. 



This Duck does not appear to be 

 common anywhere, and its history can 

 only be arrived at by the joining together 

 of fragmentary notes. Mr. A. B. Brooke, 

 writing of this bird in Sardinia, says : 

 "They were not numerous, and seemed 

 to go singly or in pairs ; and I never saw 



