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of long and patient toil, and will prove of the greatest service 
to every ornithologist. An immense mass of intricate syno- 
nymy has been disentangled, a wonderful number of facts 
have been collected and carefully arranged ; and though of course 
on a vast number of points of detail every ornithologist is 
sure to differ, very few, if any, could pretend to believe that 
they themselves could, on the whole, have produced equally 
satisfactory results. 
Ae OWaa. 
Hotes. 
In Vou. VIII., p. 456, I recorded the capture, by Colonel 
O. St. John, of a pair of White-faced Stiff-tail Ducks (Lrisma- 
tura leucocephala) in the neighbourhood of Khelat-i-Ghilzi, 
and I predicted the occurrence of this species as a straggler 
in the Punjab and Sindh. 
In Vol. IX., p. 296, I had the pleasure of recording that Mr. 
F. Field had actually procured a specimen of this species 
about a mile from the civil station of Loodhiana, Punjab. 
Now, much further east, a specimen, a male (immature, 
Jike the three other previously obtained specimens) has been 
procured at the Najafgarh Jhil near Dehli; it is almost need- 
less to say by Mr. W. N. Chill, to whom I have owed more 
rarities in the way of water birds than to any other collector 
in India. 
AwnotHer rare Duck, an immature female Scaup (Fuligula 
marila) was kindly sent me by Mr. R. M. Stoker, who pro- 
cured it on the 3rd of November, on the Indus, near Attock. 
He recorded the following particulars in the flesh :— 
Length, 14°75; expanse, 27:0; tail from vent, 2°65; wing, 
76; tarsus, 1:3; bill from gape, 1°75. Weight, 15°25 oz. 
Trides yellow. 
Hodgson, I believe, sent home one specimen, or perhaps more, 
from Nepal. Whether this or any of these were adult I do 
not know ; the only other three specimens that I know to have 
been procured within our limits are: this present specimen, 
and two others from Cashmere, all immature. It is much 
to be regretted that no adult has ever been procured, for 
the small size of all our specimens leads to the suspicion 
that they may possibly, after all, not be assignable to the true 
Fuligula marila, but rather to the smaller little known 
F, mariloides, Richardson, of which Mr, Swinhoe sent home live 
