LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.~ 523° 
have shot a good deal in Guzerat, and have only shot one. 
This last Christmas in a bag of 527 duck, shot within 40 miles. 
of Ahmedabad, there. was not one and none were seen. 
The Bittern this year is very common about here ; I have. 
seen one or two almost every day I have been out shooting 
snipe. 
J. D. INVERARITY. 
Bompay, 17th January, 1884. 
SIR, 
In your account of the range of the Grey Lag Goose 
you put the course of the Subanreeka as the southern boundary 
on the east. 
Marching along the banks of the Chilka lake with the regi- 
ment, I was out on the lake shooting at a stage called Tanghi, 
where I found almost any number of Grey Lags, of which I 
got one on the evening of the 16th November and six next 
morning, none of the bar-headed being in the bag. Next day, 
however, (we halted aday because it was Sunday) my batman 
went out and shot seven geese, five being grey lags and two bar- 
headed, my first introduction to the Bar-headed Goose. The 
weights of the Grey Lags killed by myself are as follows :— 
lbs. ozs. 
Ist (16th November) 6 9 
Ist (17th ; ) 6 4, 
2nd 5 12 { xpress: vase 
ore S32 a ae 8) hole where the 
bullet left body. 
Sth: ids i pete uu: 48 Do. do, 
Sth: inc see we 0 9 re 
6th ae Pr a: 0 
- The weight alone would prove them to be Grey Lags. I did 
not weigh those killed by my batman.. Only yesterday, 25th 
November, at Kantalu on the Mahanadi, I came across a large 
flock of geese feeding in the fields, and about a sixth of them were 
Grey Lags, easily distinguishable by their dark colour, I have 
preserved the heads and beaks of several of those shot by 
myself. < 
‘Mr. Taylor, Deputy Magistrate, and Mr. Wylly, Forest Officer, 
both of the Khurda division, told me that in the early part 
of the season the Grey Lag always very much outnumbered 
the Bar-headed Goose on the Chilka, ‘pina 
_ At Kalapathar, Khurda division, on the 22nd November, 
I killed a female Wigeon which “can always be distinguish- 
ed from other ducks by her tiny blue black-tipped bill.” 
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