426° LETTERS TO THE EDIToR.- 
~The irides were bright yellow; the bill black ; the legs and” 
feet orange yellow with black webs and nails. The stomach 
contained fish, weeds, und sand. 
With this drake was procured a female, similar to those for- 
merly sent. It was only wounded, and was put in a cage, 
and unfortunately was allowed to escape. ) 
We may now set the Garrot or Golden Eye down asa’ 
regular winter visitant to the Punjab portion, at any rate of 
the Indus ; and as Burnes procured it near the mouth of the 
Indus, it most probably occurs throughout the entire length of 
that river. But can it be confined to the Indus? Surely if 
properly looked for it will be discovered in’ the Chenab and 
other Punjab rivers. Is it purely a river duck with us? 
Or will it also occur in jheels ? Other sportsmen in the Punjab 
must help us to settle these questions. 
R. N. STOKER. 
P.S.—My last Golden Eye is a young female. Weight, 
T lb. 3 0zs. Length, 15°25; expanse, 26°91 ; tail, 3°54; bill 
from gape, 1:66. Irides whitish yellow ; feet dusky on the legs, 
dull yellow on the toes ; webs blackish ; bill greyish black. Shot 
at Hasanpore.on the 15th instant. It was seen with a number 
of others on a little pool. There were no other ducks about. 
It is decidedly not the duck that escaped. When I have time E 
shall pack it, and send it to you with the drake. ies 
R. N.S. 
Sir, 
WitH reference to the paragraphs in “ StRAY FEATHERS,” 
Vol. IX, pp. 109, 231, relating to Accipiter stevensoni, I may re- 
mark that I believe that the young of this species can only be 
distinguished from that of A. virgatus by the middle toe being 
about 1-10th of an inch shorter in the males of A. stevensoni, and 
about 1-5th of an inch in the females, than it is in the corre- 
sponding sexes of A. virgatus. 
Most old males of A. stevensoni have the throat immaculate, 
but in some a few of the feathers of the throat have a very: 
narrow dark shaft mark. 
A Malacca skin, now before me, and another from China; 
both of which I believe to be young males of A. stevensoni, 
have a very narrow dark central gular stripe, and this also 
occurs in the birds which I suppose to be adult females of 
A, stevensoni, ' 
It is to be hoped that a pair of A. stevensont may, at some 
time, be found nesting, which would much help our knowledge 
of this species. ) 
J. H. Gurney. | 
