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noticed into consideration, I think Ave may safely expunge 

 C garrula from the Indian list, for it has no more right to be 

 there than Phylloscopus trochilus. I know that my present 

 conclusion is at variance with my former one, but I had not 

 then discovered the structural difference alluded to. We might 

 almost also call the very different quality of plumage a struc- 

 tural difference; that of the English bird being so very silky. 

 I may have been rather precipitate in generalizing upon only five 

 examples of C. garrula, but others have drawn conclusions from 

 a less number than five, and these five agree very well. 



>it ijje occurrence of fuerpcbula anpstirostra in % 

 goab and ©iibfc. 



By A. Anderson. 



To Mr. Ross Knyvett, District Superintendent of Police, 

 Futtehgurh, I am indebted for the first recorded occurrence of 

 the Marbled Duck in the North-West Provinces. This new addi- 

 tion to the Avifauna of this part of the country will be of inter- 

 est to the sportsman as well as to the ornithologist. This 

 specimen, which is now in my collection, was shot out of a flock 

 of Pintails in January last at a jheel in this district. Mr. 

 Knyvett informs me that since then another Duck of the same 

 kind flew close past ldm, but he did not fire at it. 



On the 5 th of March I happened to be at Sandee in the 

 Hurdui district (Oudh), where my shikaree shot another out of 

 a flock of three : subsequently he saw two or three more, but 

 owing to the expanse of the water he was unable to approach 

 within shot of them. This specimen was a male, and measured 

 as follows : Length, 17*3 ; wing, 7*7 ; tail, from vent, 3*5 ; tar- 

 sus, 1*4; bill, straight, 1*7. 



As Mr. Hume has very recently given a detailed descrip- 

 tion of the plumage (as well as habits) of this species, Stray 

 Feathers for 1873, p. 262, et seq., any further details would be 

 superfluous. An admirable figure too, of this Duck, will be found 

 in Mr. Dresser's work on the " Birds of Europe." That author, 

 however, must surely be making a mistake in giving the " total 

 length as 14*6 inches," and that of a male too ! 



